Putin to Meet With New Iranian President on Sept. 13
MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his first meeting with recently elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on September 13, as part of a Eurasian summit in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, a Russian presidential aide said Friday.
“After Rouhani’s election as president, the Iranian government sent us a proposal to hold a Rouhani-Putin meeting within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek on September 13,” Yury Ushakov said.
“We were grateful to the Iranian side for such initiative and naturally supported it and gave our consent,” Putin’s aide added. “We are now preparing for the meeting.”
The meeting will be Putin’s second this year with Iran’s head of state, following his talks with outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in early July.
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