Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran’s capital Tehran on November 23 to take part in the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Friday.
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But Ushakov said Putin was also expected to meet separately with senior Iranian leaders, possibly including President Hassan Rohani.
“Taking into consideration Medvedev’s planned visit to Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia to attend the annual East Asia leaders’ meetings on November 21-22 and his official visit to Cambodia afterwards, the schedules of the Russian leaders have been optimized”, Ushakov told reporters.
Iran and Russian Federation seek to step up economic cooperation after Tehran and the P5+1 group, including Russian Federation, reached a nuclear agreement in the Austrian capital of Vienna on July 14.
Putin and Obama last crossed paths at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, where they held a 90-minute meeting, their first formal bilateral encounter in two years.
Iran, Russia, Qatar, Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Peru, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman are main members of GECF.
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Iran is hosting the 12-country natural gas conference in the wake of its nuclear accord with six world powers, which calls for worldwide sanctions on Iran to be lifted in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
