MOSCOW -- Russian and Iranian experts met at the Russian Foreign Ministry to discuss international security, disarmament, nonproliferation and export control, a report from the Foreign Ministry said as quoted by ITAR-TASS. According to the report, the consultations focused on "strengthening of the strategic stability, preparations for the 2005 review conference of the parties to the treaty on the non- proliferation of nuclear weapons, prospects for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), implementation of the convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons and international negotiations on strengthening the convention on the prohibition of biological weapons."

The experts also discussed nonproliferation of missiles particularly in light of the draft resolution on the subject proposed by Iran in the United Nations, the Russian ministry said, IRNA reported.

They also discussed in detail the agenda for the upcoming 57th session of the UN General Assembly, the ministry further added.