MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax) - U.S. and French officials' statements to the effect that the document negotiated in Geneva as a result of the Sextet's talks with Iran was not adopted over Russia's position, are a crude distortion of the actual situation, Moscow said.
"This is a crude distortion of the facts. I would even say, the actual situation in the talks was twisted round the wrong way," a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax on Tuesday.
"If our Western colleagues have decided to publicly disclose the negotiating tactics in Geneva, the matters actually stood this way," he said.
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in clear terms in Geneva that the Russian side is ready to support both the first edition of the document, agreed upon by the Americans in the Sextet, and a draft circulated at the last moment with an understanding that it must be brought to a proper condition, which was finally agreed upon at the Geneva meeting with the Iranian foreign minister on November 9," the source said.