Russia France Press Conference live on BBC International

now. Discussing Iran.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7037390.stm
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Moscow has no information that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

But he said Moscow shared the West's concerns that Tehran's nuclear programme had to be "transparent".

"We do not have data that says Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. We do not have such objective data," Mr Putin said at a joint news conference with Mr Sarkozy.

"Therefore we proceed from a position that Iran has no such plans but we share the concern of our partners that all programmes should be as transparent as possible," the Russian leader added.

Meanwhile, Mr Sarkozy said that Paris and Moscow had made progress in ironing out their differences on the Iran issue.