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Russian President Signs Eurasia-Iran FTZ Bill into Law

reporter 1222 — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 07:41:52 +0000

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a draft agreement to establish a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries.

The draft agreement was ratified by the State Duma and the Federation Council (two houses of the Russian parliament) on November 15 and 23, respectively.

The agreement, signed in Astana on May 17, 2018, sets the main rules of trade between the EAEU, Iran and those of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which Iran is not a member of, the Tass news agency reported on Wednesday.

It is intended for a period of four years, under which the EAEU will grant Iran tariff concessions on 502 harmonized commodity codes.

The Eurasian Economic Union includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Iran and EAEU members started to develop the agreement on the free trade in 2015, though the signing has been postponed several times.

The agreement enters into force 60 days from the date of receipt of the last written notice of completion by the member states of the EAEU and Iran of the internal procedures necessary for its entry into force, the report added.

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Putin, Erdogan Discuss Security in Black Sea Region Following Ukrainian Provocation

reporter 1222 — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:53:04 +0000

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the situation in the Black Sea region in the wake of the Kerch Strait incident, the Kremlin’s press-service said.

“In the context of the dangerous incident provoked by Kiev in the Kerch Strait area there was an exchange of opinion on matters of stability and security in the Black Sea Region,” the news release says, TASS news agency reported.

On November 25, three Ukrainian naval ships violated the rules of navigation through Russia’s territorial waters on the way from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov. Weapons were used to make them stop in the Kerch Strait. Three Ukrainian military servicemen were lightly wounded and given medical assistance. The ships were detained and taken to Kerch. Criminal proceedings were launched in Russia over the violation of the state border. Russia described the incident as a provocation. The Ukrainian authorities initiated the introduction of a state of emergency. The European Union and NATO called for de-escalation of tensions.

The two leaders have discussed the situation in Syria, particularly in Idlib, during the telephone call. “It has been agreed to beef up joint efforts aimed at the implementation of a memorandum on stabilization of the situation in Idlib, signed in Sochi on September 17, including the fight against terror groups,” according to the statement.

The leaders of both countries also emphasized the importance of work of the guarantor countries of the Astana process in promoting inter-Syrian dialogue, the Kremlin stated.

According to the Russian-Turkish memorandum signed in Sochi on September 17 after talks between the Russian and Turkish presidents, a demilitarized zone of a depth of 15-20 kilometers should have been created in Idlib by October 15. However, Turkey asked to postpone joint patrolling in Idlib due to its inability to guarantee security on its side.

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Russian President Signs Eurasia-Iran FTZ Bill into Law

reporter 1222 — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:51:44 +0000

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a draft agreement to establish a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries.

The draft agreement was ratified by the State Duma and the Federation Council (two houses of the Russian parliament) on November 15 and 23, respectively.

It is intended for a period of four years, under which the EAEU will grant Iran tariff concessions on 502 harmonized commodity codes.

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Putin highly regards Ayatollah Khamenei’s viewpoints

reporter 1222 — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:15:53 +0000

Senior Adviser to Iranian Leader, Ali Akbar Velayati, said on Sat. that Russian President Vladimir Putin attaches great deal of importance to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and his viewpoints.

The former Iranian foreign minister made the remarks on Saturday morning while answering the questions posed by the participants at the Scientific Seminar on Defining Iran’s Strategic Foreign Policies with the theme of “A View on the East” at Islamic Revolution Institute in Tehran.

During the Q&A session after his address, Mr. Velayati rejected the point made in a question posed by some participants that ideology does not play a role in the foreign policy of the western countries.

“There is no country or bloc in the world that does not move within the framework of a collection of aspirations which can be named causes or values. Even the US, which is pioneering to make it uncertain in especially Islamic countries in the third world, is the most idealistic country among the westerners and sometimes they have explicitly expressed this fact. You can see that after the intentional or unintentional destruction of the twin [world] trade [center] towers in this country by their own people or enemies of US, some smart Americans reasoned that it was done by Americans themselves,” he said.

“The crusade has just begun;” Bush junior said this, spilling the beans about their secret intentions. This word is enough to prove how they look at us i.e. the Islamic world. Earlier the essay, titled as the Clash of Civilizations, by the Jewish Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, who has passed away now, was published and translated into Farsi. He says that we would witness a clash between civilizations of Christianity, including the Catholics and the Orthodox, with both Islamic and Confucian civilizations in the future and there will be bloody conflicts separating these civilizations from each other,” he recounted.

“Huntington addressed a conference in Cyprus concurrent with the American planes’ bombardment of Kosovo where the majority are Muslims. He said that the bombardment was one of those conflicts. He supported the extremist measure undertaken by Bush junior. In fact, he held that with war on Iraq, US had demolished the infrastructures in this country to later exchange Iraq’s oil with constructing infrastructures for this country,” asserted the Iranian veteran diplomat.

“Even 164 of American intellectuals, including Samuel Huntington, wrote a letter to Bush and approved of all his measures. Even if we pay attention to Cyprus, we see that it is divided into two regions; the southern part which is inhabited by Christians and Orthodox Christians and the northern part that is inhabited by Muslims and Turks. The interesting point is that the southern region is part of the European Union but the northern part is not yet included in the European Union,” he said.

“Without idealism it is impossible. Even liberal democracy is a cause. So it is not like that they don’t follow any idealism. Basically no political movement happens in the world by any country that is free from the framework of any ideology or cause,” he continued.

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