MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA AND IRAN TREATED YOUR STEPS IN
THE INTEREST OF THE STABILIZATION OF THE SITUATION AROUND
AFGHANISTAN








MOSCOW, 13 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" correspondent Jelena Gluschakowa /.
the director/conductor of the State Departments of Russia and Iran,
Igor Iwanow and Kamal Kharrazi, treated steps, Moscow and Teheran in
the interest of the stabilization of the situation around Afghanistan
to undertake to be able.  That indicated on Tuesday the Russian
minister of foreign affairs after the negotiations with its Iranian
colleague.

Iwanow emphasized that the positions of Russia and Iran are close to
this question.

After his words the two Ministers executed the consultations in the
context of the attendance over international problems and treated
among other things steps for the further development of co-operation
between Moscow and Teheran in the international arena as well as a
cooperating between Russia and Iran in the Kaspiseeraum, in central
Asia, in the Caucasus and in the gulf space.  Iwanow stressed that the
pages had agreed to coordinate their efforts so that the situation in
these regions corresponds to stability and security.