RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they are hopeful Geneva talks on Iran's nuclear programme will produce results
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RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they are hopeful Geneva talks on Iran's nuclear programme will produce results
- Title: RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they are hopeful Geneva talks on Iran's nuclear programme will produce results
- Date: 20th November 2013
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 20, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF THE KREMLIN CLOCK ON MANTEL RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SHAKING HANDS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU PUTIN AND NETANYAHU POSING FOR CAMERAS, THEN SHAKING HANDS WITH DELEGATES PUTIN AND NETANYAHU WALKING INTO NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN, SAYING: "We have discussed in detail with the prime minister the issues of the Iranian nuclear programme. (PAUSES FOR TRANSLATION) We hope that a mutually acceptable resolution is found in the nearest future." CAMERAS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN, SAYING: "As the sextet consultations with Iran have demonstrated, the possibility is there. It exists, and Russia has an optimistic view of the current talks." RUSSIAN CREST DECORATION ON CEILING (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, SAYING (AS TRANSLATED): "I think this is analogous to the situation in Syria, it looks a lot like the Iranian problems that are now being decided by the countries in the Geneva conference." CAMERAS PUTIN AND NETANYAHU SHAKING HANDS
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- Topics: International Relations
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- Story Text: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (November 20) that he was hopeful of a positive outcome at talks under way in Geneva on the stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme.
Putin made the comments after talks in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"We have discussed in detail with the prime minister the issues of the Iranian nuclear programme. We hope that a mutually acceptable resolution is found in the nearest future," Putin said in a statement to journalists.
"As the sextet consultations with Iran have demonstrated the possibility is there. It exists, and Russia has an optimistic view of the current talks," Putin added.
Netanyahu said the recent deal reached on the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons store could be an example of how international parties could work together on Iran.
"I think this is analogous to the situation in Syria, it looks a lot like the Iranian problems that are now being decided by the countries in the Geneva conference."
Netanyahu flew to Russia on Wednesday to appeal for tougher terms in a nuclear accord with Iran after failing to convince the United States that world powers are pursuing a bad deal.
Envoys from Russia, the United States, China, France, Britain and Germany began a third and possibly conclusive round of talks with Iran in Geneva on easing economic sanctions in return for curbs on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.
Israel, thought to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, sees a nuclear-armed Iran as a mortal threat and wants its uranium enrichment capabilities dismantled and its enriched uranium removed. Tehran denies seeking atomic weapons.
Russia, which built Iran's first nuclear power plant and remains on better terms with Tehran than Western powers, has expressed less suspicion than them about Iran's nuclear work. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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