Sergey Lavrov: Russia opposes sanctions against Iran
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed his country's opposition to unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, urging logic to deal with the case.
“We are strongly against politicization of Iran's nuclear case and call for debating the issue through legal and technical channels,” Mehr news agency quoted Lavrov as speaking in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday.
“We have repeatedly announced that we do not accept unilateral sanctions and call on both sides to take confidence-building measures which will satisfy the sides through a gradual solution,” he added.
Lavrov noted that his country has always supported interaction with Iran and emphasized that Moscow believes that negotiations would be “the best way to resolve issues.”