Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia and Iran have every opportunity for a new, more advanced quality of relations, RIA Novosti news agency reported. "We appreciate our good-neighborly and friendly relations, our countries cooperate constructively in almost all directions ... we have an intensive dialogue at the highest level," Lavrov said, opening talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. "Today there are all the possibilities to fill the Russian-Iranian relations with a new quality, even more advanced one in the spirit of agreements that have been reached between the two presidents, in the spirit of the decisions that have been made in order to resolve the Iranian nuclear program," said the Russian minister. In a press conference following the talks, Lavrov has said that Syrian leader legitimate, and that "our position unchanged", saying that the Syria's future can only be decided by Syrian's themselves. Referring to the developments in eastern Ukraine, he also said that it appeared that Kiev is preparing to renew large-scale fighting.
