Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his United Arab Emirates counterpart on Friday that U.S.-Iran talks needed to be supported to prevent a resumption of hostilities in the Middle East.
– “The Russian side emphasised the need to focus on supporting the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the USA,” a foreign ministry statement said of Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
– The statement said Russia did not want “to jeopardise the prospects for stabilisation by resuming hostilities.”