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Russia says not timely to discuss new Iran sanctions

UNITED NATIONS
Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:33pm EDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday it was not the time to consider any new sanctions on Iran, which Western powers suspect is trying to develop a nuclear bomb.

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We "continue to believe that it is not timely to consider at the ministerial or at any other level this proposal of new sanctions," Lavrov told a news conference at the United Nations.

(reporting by Claudia Parsons; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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