From The Financial Times:
The leading powers were forced to cancel a meeting due to be held on Wednesday on the Iranian nuclear threat after Russia said the talks were not urgent, in a further sign of Moscow’s frostier relations with the west after the Georgia crisis.
Foreign ministers from the US, China, Russia, France and the UK – the five permanent, veto-holding members of the United Nations Security Council – and Germany were due to meet to discuss further sanctions aimed at reining in Tehran’s nuclear programme.
The cancellation came on the eve of a meeting on Wednesday between Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister – their first since Washington came out forcefully against Russian military intervention in Georgia last month.
Western members of the “3 plus 3 group” had hoped to set out the framework for a fourth set of UN sanctions to force Iran to comply with demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.
But Andrei Nesterenko, Russian foreign ministry spokesman, said on Tuesday night: “We see no fire alarm which would require us to put off other things in the extremely busy week of the UN General Assembly.”
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My Comment: Russia has decided to pursue a policy of economic and military cooperation with Iran at the expense of its relationship with Europe and the U.S. The political benefits to Russia are few if any. It's hopes lie on military cooperation .... but Russia will quickly learn that Iran never works with anyone.
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