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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a political delegation, arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Saturday to discuss the latest developments in the Caucasus region.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to pay a daylong visit to Baku, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Iran, Abbasali Hasanov said Saturday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday NATO’s promise to extend membership to Georgia was unjust, humiliating and intolerable to Moscow.

Russian troops have withdrawn from the Georgian port of Poti on the Black Sea coast in the first phase of a pullout brokered by France. They have also been dismantling various camps and checkpoints they established elsewhere in Western Georgia, after a brief war erupted early in August over the …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian diplomatic and military officials held talks with their Iranian and Syrian counterparts Friday, amid tensions with the West following Russia’s conflict with Georgia last month.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A top Russian official said Moscow will veto any US attempt in the UN Security Council to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The capacity of Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project will increase to 2.5 billion cubic meters, Armenia’s Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan announced.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow dismissed a US request for UN Security Council sanctions against Iran’s main shipping line, stressing that Russia has its own ways to be vigilant about Iran’s financial transactions.

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia plans to become part of the Russian Federation, its leader said on Thursday.

Russia has urged the United Nations’ highest court to dismiss a case brought by Georgia, accusing Moscow of human rights violations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.