MOSCOW. Nov 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow experts consider Iran's consent to sign the additional protocol on IAEA guarantees and to suspend uranium-enrichment efforts to be a huge achievement of Russian diplomacy.
"Iran's consent to sign the additional protocol on IAEA guarantees and to suspend uranium-enrichment efforts is a huge achievement of Russian diplomacy, Vladimir Putin's diplomacy," Andrei Kokoshin, chairman of the CIS affairs committee in the State Duma, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council Hasan Rowhani announced the day before that Iran is ready to sign the protocol and to suspend uranium enrichment.
"The U.S. and European Union nations would not have been able to achieve such a result without Russia's active role in non- proliferation of nuclear weapons as far as Iran is concerned," Kokoshin stressed.
In order to achieve such a result, Russia "did not sacrifice an inch of its economic and political interests in relations with its southern neighbor," he said.
"The Iranian leaders' responsible decision on the nuclear problem lifts all kinds of limitations on Russian-Iranian cooperation in the civilian nuclear energy sphere and paves the way for more energetic progress in implementing a series of other large-scale projects," Kokoshin stressed.