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Ahmadinejad delays Russia visit after election
Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:16am EDT
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YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delayed attending a regional security summit in Russia on Monday after protests against his contested re-election.
Ahmadinejad has faced demonstrations and clashes in the streets since Saturday, when officials announced his landslide victory in the election on Friday against a moderate opponent.
He had been due to arrive in Russia on Monday for separate meetings with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), where Iran has observer status.
"The president will definitely not come today," said a diplomatic source at the Iranian embassy who asked not to be named. The source said it was unclear why the visit had been delayed but added that Ahmadinejad would arrive on Tuesday.
A Russian official who also asked not to be named said the visit had been delayed until Tuesday and added that Ahmadinejad still planned to speak to reporters. The Kremlin declined immediate comment.
The president of Iran, the world's fifth-largest oil producer, has often stolen the limelight at major conferences, including an SCO meeting in Shanghai in 2006 that was dominated by news about Tehran's nuclear program.
The SCO groups Russia and China and four ex-Soviet Central Asia republics.
The leaders of India and Pakistan plan to meet on the sidelines of the summit in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, their first such meeting since last November's attack on Mumbai, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told APP.
NUCLEAR-ARMED POWERS
A meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari could help break the ice between the two nuclear-armed powers.
"The two leaders will have a one-on-one meeting," Qureshi told APP in Yekaterinburg. "It is an important meeting between two important leaders in the region."
"When two national leaders meet, time is of no significance," he said when asked about how long the two leaders would meet for. An official who is helping to organize summit meetings told Reuters the meeting would take place on Tuesday.
Pakistan is keen to resume a peace process broken off by India after the attacks on Mumbai, blamed by New Delhi on the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
Analysts will be closely watching for any sign that Singh is willing to reopen formal peace talks, or whether he will insist, as India has done so far, that Pakistan first takes further action against Pakistan-based militants.
SCO leaders meet for dinner with Medvedev on Monday and some observer nations will also attend. On Tuesday, a fuller meeting of SCO leaders and observer countries will take place. Continued...
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