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ANKARA, May 31 (RIA Novosti)-A meeting on Thursday between the six nations leading efforts to solve crisis around Iran's nuclear programs could bring a solution, Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday.
Sergei Lavrov called on the participants in the negotiations to avoid making "sharp movements" and wasting a real chance to resolve the situation.
"We hope proposals can be drawn up at tomorrow's meeting in Vienna that will open up a chance for a peaceful resolution [of the problem]," Lavrov said.
Representatives of the five UN Security Council members and Germany are due to meet in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But Lavrov played down suggestions that Iranian representatives might join the talks, saying that he had seen no document saying that officials from the Islamic Republic would attend.
The Russian minister also attacked some sections of the media for what he termed as attempts to undermine the meeting in the Austrian capital
"Attempts through the press to set off the positions of the participants in the Vienna negations against each other do not help normal work," he said. "They are probably being made by those people who do not want the talks to be successful."
Russia and China have been consistently in favor of a diplomatic solution to the crisis, whereas the European nations and United States have been pushing for sanctions and have refused to rule out a military operation.
Lavrov said the Vienna consultations had one objective: to work out a common approach that would reflect the strategic goal of ensuring the nonproliferation regime while observing the interests of every signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
