| October 2007 |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will back the shared position of the six international mediators on Iran's nuclear program during his visit to Tehran next week, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. 
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko proposed that Russia start to build a second leg of a pipeline delivering natural gas to Europe, and offered free transit for five years. 
The U.S. and Russia failed to resolve a missile defense dispute at Friday's talks in Moscow between the countries' foreign and defense ministers, but agreed to resume negotiations next April. 
Russia refuses to change its position on U.S. plans to deploy missile defense elements in Europe and demands on an arms reduction treaty, a senior Defense Ministry official said on Friday. 
Russia and India have reaffirmed plans to draft a comprehensive cooperation treaty to boost trade, as well as ties in a range of other areas, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Friday. 
Moscow hopes U.S. proposals on missile defense, START-1 and the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty will take into account Russian initiatives, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday. 



