Russian president to visit Baghdad
Iraq-Russia, Politics, 11/9/2001

The Russian ambassador in Amman Alexander Ivanov has disclosed that the Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iraq shortly. But he did not give a timing for the meeting.

Ivanov said that the visit will be within the next tour of President Putin to the Middle East. He indicated that Putin received official invitations from the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the Jordanian King Abdullah II, the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and many other leaders.

Ivanov explained that Moscow does not back the establishment of a disarmed Palestinian state because in this case such a Palestinian state will not be able to defend itself against any outer danger. But the ambassador noted that only certain areas can be set as disarmed, in an agreement with the Israelis, in a way similar to what happened with Egypt.

He stressed that Moscow backs the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state.

Replying to a question on Moscow's position towards the American and Israeli threats to confiscate the Pakistani nuclear weapons, the Russian ambassador said that his country opposes that and that Pakistan is an independent state and is the side responsible for its nuclear weapon and also there is only one legal international side authorized to monitor this program which is the International Atomic Agency.

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