| April 2008 |
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A senior Russian government official said on Wednesday after talks with the Iranian leadership that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons. 
"The steps that have been taken and the rhetoric have increased tensions and undermined Georgia's territorial integrity," NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters in Brussels. 
Turkey is planning to build its own long-range missile defense network by 2010 and may choose Russian-made S-300 air defense systems as its main component, a local news agency said on Wednesday. 
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry summoned on Wednesday the U.S. charge d'affaires in Minsk, Jonathan Moore, and handed him a list of U.S. diplomats considered personae non gratae by the former Soviet state. 
Georgia's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that Russian military hardware and troops had already crossed the border into the breakaway republic of Abkhazia and called the move "an act of aggression." 
Georgia's leadership is pushing the nation toward a potentially disastrous war over the breakaway Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Russian envoy to NATO said on Wednesday. 
A final resolution on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is impossible without the restoration of Palestinian unity, the Russian foreign minister said on Wednesday. 
A decision on the Russian equipment for Iran's first nuclear plant that has been held up for over a month on the Azerbaijan-Iran border will be taken soon, an Azerbaijani deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday. 
Georgia's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that Russian military hardware and troops had already crossed the border into the breakaway republic of Abkhazia and called the move "an act of aggression." 
Iranian cooperation with Russia is aimed at ensuring regional stability and security, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday at a meeting with Russia's acting Security Council chief. 



