Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Russia did not intend to hamper the U.S. draft, Reuters reported.
When Igor Ivanov, chief of Mr Putin's national security council, took Russia's compromise to Tehran a week ago, he also got a public brush-off.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov gave his country's tacit approval to the text of the resolution, although his support came with a caveat.
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, meeting in Norway with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, said U.S officials had not been able to confirm the report.
"If in the coming days the situation does not change, we need to take additional extraordinary measures, including at the highest level, " said Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov.
Finally, late on Wednesday, a former Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, who had helped to ease out Mr Shevardnadze last November, performed the same trick with Mr Abashidze.
He turned his aircraft round and flew back to Moscow for another meeting with Igor Ivanov, the Russian foreign minister, which rapidly turned into a long night's eyeballing with some devious generals.
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, who was expected to speak by telephone early Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said Moscow would urge the United Nations to lift the international arms embargo against Belgrade.
Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, has alleged that the weapons inspectors are being put under pressure to provide evidence that could be used as a pretext for war, or to provoke the Iraqis so much that they get themselves thrown out.
But this year, in a sign of just how dramatically the international community has changed since September 11, Powell is to meet with his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov to continue the new theme of cooperation and good will forged by U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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