Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is due to travel to Sochi, Russia next week, where he is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The two parties will discuss diplomatic, security and economic issues concerning the two countries, as well as important regional affairs, mainly the Iranian nuclear program,
" Naftali Bennett's cabinet said on Tuesday (October 12th).
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At the end of September, Naftali Bennett accused Iran before the UN General Assembly of having crossed “
all the red lines
” and reaffirmed that the Hebrew state would not “
allow
” Tehran to acquire the atomic weapon.
Russia poses as a mediator
This is the first official visit to Russia by the Israeli Prime Minister since his inauguration in June.
After his victory, Vladimir Putin congratulated Naftali Bennett after his victory and stressed that Russian-Israeli cooperation would strengthen "
peace, security and stability
" in the Middle East.
Moscow is one of the signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, alongside Germany, China, the United States, France and Great Britain. The United States, under the presidency of Donald Trump, had withdrawn three years later from this agreement supposed to frame Iran's nuclear program, but his successor in the White House, Joe Biden, made the wish to return at the negotiating table. Talks for a relaunch of the agreement had thus resumed in April in Vienna, before being suspended in June and the election of the ultra-conservative Iranian president Ebrahim Raïssi.
Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, whose country assures us that its nuclear program is intended for civilian purposes, paid a visit to Moscow last week, where his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov pleaded for a recovery "
as fast as possible
”negotiations in Vienna.