| April 2007 |
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If early elections are held in Ukraine they should be both parliamentary and presidential, the Ukrainian prime minister said Wednesday. 
Russia has asked Iran to switch from national to international banking standards in funding the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the general contractor said Wednesday. 
Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday at a meeting with the secretary of Russia's Security Council that the international embargo on arms deliveries to Lebanese militants should be observed. 
The U.S. administration is continuing to pursue a policy on disintegration of post-Soviet space, a Russian political expert said Wednesday. 
Iran may stay away from an upcoming international conference on Iraq unless the U.S. frees five Iranian diplomats it seized earlier this year in Iraq, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. 
Doubts by the international community over Iran's transition to nuclear fuel production on an industrial scale are ungrounded, a high ranking Iranian official said Wednesday. 
"We are not interested in withdrawing from the NPT and regard it as a good agreement," Ali Larijani said. He also urged the West to abandon a stance that could turn the NPT into a useless international treaty. 
A U.S. State Department report on democratic processes and human rights protection in the world contains an arbitrary and politicized provision regarding Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. 
Ukraine's government is taking urgent measures to cut domestic budget spending in an effort to forestall the negative social and economic consequences of an escalating political standoff. 
The U.S. secretary of state has urged Russia to respect Georgia's territorial integrity and to stop supporting separatist republics within the South Caucasus nation. 



