RUSSIA AND IRAN AGREED UPON TIGHTNESS MILITARY CO-OPERATION








MOSCOW, 12 March (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent).  Russia
and Iran want to deepen their co-operation despite large distrust of
the west in the armament and atomic industry.  Moscow will adhere
however by international agreements and no forbidden weapons supply,
said Russian president Vladimir Putin after a meeting with its Iranian
colleague Mohammed Chatami to Monday in the Kremlin.  The value of the
future Russian-Iranian armament businesses became annually estimated
from the government in Moscow on approximately 300 million US Dollar.


" Russia does not have the intention of violating its obligations ",
avowed Putin, in order to zerstreuen doubts particularly in the USA.
Iran ordered only weapons for self-defense.  Chatami expected from the
first attendance of an Iranian head of state in Russia since the
Islamic revolution 1979 a " new spring " in the bilateral relations.


Putin and Chatami signed a new basic agreement and an assertion to
recognize up to the final allocation of the Kaspi sea between the five
neighboring states no boundaries on the oil-rich Binnenmeer.  The
solution of the problem " is excluding thing of the neighbors and an
interference of third states is illegal ", explained it additionally.
  At the development of the energy occurrences in the Kaspi sea also
the USA and the European states are interested very much.

Chatami criticized that Russia with the completion of the disputed,
atomic power plant begun by Siemens was original Buschir in delay.
Putin announced remedy and offered Iran the building of further
nuclear power stations.  Washington has that 1995 agreed upon
Russian-Iranian atomic business several times criticized, because it
is afraid a passing on of nuclear weapon technology.  Moscow insists
on the fact that it supplies only civilian technique for the
production of atomic current.

Due to a secret treaty with the USA Moscow weapon supplies at Iran had
suspended since 1995, the declaration/agreement in November 2000 had
however quit.  Iran is interested according to Russian specification
particularly in modern tanks of the type T-90.  The desired rocket
technology will however not supply Russia.

On the same day Chatami met also with the Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Kasjanow.  Further stations of the three-day-long attendance
should be St. Petersburg and Kazan', the capital of the Islamic
coined/shaped Russian partial republic Tatarstan at the Volga.