The situation with Iran will be one of the thorniest issues in the international agenda of talks to be held between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Monday.
“The subject of Iran will certainly be touched upon,” the Russian president’s aide, Sergei Prikhodko, said, adding that President Sarkozy was also paying great attention to Iran’s problem.
At the same time, the high-ranking representative in diplomatic circles suggested that there wouldn’t be any detailed discussion of the Iranian issues, including sanctions against Tehran.
“The question about the scale of sanctions is premature,” he said.
In his special statement in New York last September Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia was ready for joint work on that matter. He also added that there are situations when sanctions become inevitable but what’s most important is Russia’s readiness to work on this matter.
“I don’t think that time will allow the two leaders to go into details of sanctions,” the diplomat went on to say. “They will probably discuss Russia’s interaction with France within the framework of the ‘six’ and the United Nations in broad context,” he added.
“The leaders will verify their positions in which Russia and France, by and large, don’t have contradictions,” the diplomat emphasized.
