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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    July 6, 2004 Tuesday

    Russia opposes foreign interference in Middle East

    By Viktor Lebedev

    DUBAI, July 6
    Russia opposes any interference from the outside in the affairs of
    the Middle East countries. Countries of that region are capable of
    upholding their security on their own. There is no need for foreign
    and military presence in the region, Igor Ivanov, head of the Russian
    Security Council said at a meeting with chairman of the Iranian
    National Security Council Hasan Rouhani in Teheran.

    Ivanov, who arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for discussing
    some problems of regional and international security with Iranian
    leaders, spoke in favour of a further development and consolidation
    of political relations between Moscow and Teheran, especially in the
    present-day international situation and following the latest
    developments in the region, in the interests of the settlement of
    regional problems, of the restoration of stability and security.

    Ivanov said the building of a nuclear power plant in Bousher with
    Russian assistance would be completed in 2005. It will be put in
    operation in 2006. He described the projects for the building of oil
    pipelines from Iran to Armenia, Pakistan and India as "projects of
    major strategic importance" and reaffirmed Russia's willingness to
    cooperate with Iran in that sphere. Ivanov welcomed Teheran's
    cooperation with international organisations in the sphere of a
    peaceful use of atomic energy.

    In his turn, Hasan Rouhani opposed the attempts of the NATO countries
    to ensure their presence in the Caspian Sea area and stressed it ran
    counter to the interests of countries of that region and created a
    threat for their security. He said the Caspian Sea countries should
    cooperate in the sphere of security and suggested the holding of
    meetings of heads of their security councils in the interests of
    strengthening peace.

    Hasan Rouhani described the Bousher nuclear power plant as "a vivid
    example of technical cooperation" between Iran and Russia.
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