Relations with Iran are priority for Russia and develop very successfully. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, a meeting of Vladimir Putin and the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masuda Kayshkin was held, the Kremlin website reports.
“Relations with Iran are priority for us, and they are developing very successfully. This year we observe the growth of trade. True, he did not play a certain fall of the last year, but the trend is good. We are actively working together in the international arena, ours. The assessments of the events taking place in the world are often very close, we will talk about it today, ”said Putin.
Meanwhile, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the communication of leaders began with the participation of delegations, then negotiations continued on the eye.
It is noted that the negotiations of Vladimir Putin and President Iran lasted about an hour. It is not necessary that the first meeting of the presidents took place in Ashgabat.
Earlier, the assistant to the head of the Russian state, Yuri Ushakov, reported that the parties will discuss bilateral issues, as well as a sharply aggravated situation in the Middle East.