NNA - Russia?s foreign chief Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Tehran for talks on a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six international mediators, as well as on a Syria peace conference.



The visit comes after Tehran signed an interim 6-month agreement in late November where it pledged to scrap uranium enrichment over 5 percent and destroy its stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium. The deal has also prohibited the Islamic republic to put new centrifuges on line and frozen all work on its heavy water reactor in Arak.



Moscow said it had faith in Iran?s commitment to cooperate with the international nuclear watchdog IAEA.



The Russian foreign office has underscored on several occasions that the Iranian accord will undoubtedly improve the situation in the Middle East and help the international community overcome the dangerous bias towards forceful methods that has come to the fore over the last years.



During his two-day visit to Iran, Sergei Lavrov is expected to discuss the outlooks for a Syria peace conference with the country?s senior authorities. The Kremlin has long been seeking to put Iran, as a country of influence in the region, at the negotiating table in Geneva.



Up for discussion will also be a bunch of important bilateral topics, including cooperation in such sectors as trade, economy and military technologies, as well as Afghan drug trafficking and the upcoming Caspian summit that Russia is going to host in autumn 2014.



Lavrov will hold talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in meetings scheduled Wednesday, Iran?s foreign ministry said.



Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters Tuesday that the visit was in line with the close cooperation between Tehran and Moscow and that it would include bilateral, regional and international issues.


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