- He denies reports about an alleged Russian-Syrian agreement to establish Russian Navy bases on Syria's Mediterranean coast in Tartus and Latakia
- U.S.-led multinational foreign forces in Iraq should not conduct military operations outside the country, including against Iran
- Elements of the U.S. missile defense system in Europe will not allow the United States to stop the threat of missile launches from rogue states
- The discussion surrounding the missile defense problem at the Russia-NATO Council was being artificially blocked
* The head of Russia's nuclear power agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, said:
- Russia and the Republic of South Africa are discussing plans to establish a complex program of cooperation in the nuclear sphere
- Russia's Renova Group and South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining have signed a memorandum of understanding
* Russia's upper house ratified a Moscow-EU agreement on visa facilitation and readmission signed in May
* Russia's Supreme Court has revoked a 24-year sentence against former Yukos oil company security employee Alexei Pichugin
* Suspected outbreaks of bird flu in the Kashira, Ramenskoye and Odintsovo Districts of the Moscow Region have not been confirmed, the Russian agriculture watchdog said
* Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said he forecasts a significant decrease in private capital inflow in 2007 as compared to 2006
* The Russian nuclear equipment and services monopoly said it has sent its Iranian partners a timeframe for settling an outstanding debt on construction of a nuclear power plant in southern Iran
* Dmitry Kozak, Russia's presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District, said he will submit three candidates for the post of Chechen president to Vladimir Putin
* A St. Petersburg court rejected a lawsuit against Russia's education authorities over the compulsory teaching of evolution in schools
* Iranians will continue to make full use of peaceful nuclear energy and disregard opposition from countries speaking the language of force, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
* The United States intends to rescind the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which has been restricting trade with Russia, a high-ranking U.S. congressman said
* Poland's ex-president Aleksander Kwasniewski said Warsaw should insist that Washington discuss its missile defense plans with Russia and the European Union
