Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian signed the agreement in the Malachite Chamber of the Kremlin. The Russian president has signed similar agreements with China and North Korea in recent years.
Russian presidents Vladimir Putinand Iranian, Masud Pezeshkiantoday signed a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership agreement’. The signing ceremony took place in the Kremlin’s Malachite Hall, after several hours of negotiations between the delegations of both states.
“Our country attaches great importance to further strengthening friendly and good-neighborly relations between Russia and Iran,” Putin said, emphasizing that such cooperation is based on equality and mutual respect.
The head of the Kremlin, who has signed in recent years Similar agreements with China and North Koreahas expressed his satisfaction with the outcome of the negotiations with Pezeshkian, which he believes took place in a constructive atmosphere.
He emphasized the increase of bilateral tradethe agreements energy issue and the Russian commitment to construction two new reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Facing Western sanctions
In turn, he emphasized that Moscow and Tehran share positions on many international issues and also when it comes to dealing with unilateral Western sanctions.
In addition to bilateral issues, Putin and Pezeshkian also discussed the issue crisis in the Middle Eastboth in Syria and between Israel and Palestine.
Putin has stressed that Moscow will continue to support Damascus to normalize the situation in the country after the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who went into exile in Russia in December, but added that it is the Syrians who must decide about their situation. future without interference abroad.
The ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement’ was signed three days before the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.
However, both Moscow and Tehran They have denied plans to forge a military alliance and that its agreement targets third countries. They have also ruled out including a mutual assistance clause in the event of aggression such as the one signed with North Korea last year.
Source: EITB
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