MOSCOW, January 15. /ITAR-TASS/. The agreement between Tehran and the six world powers (five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, P5+1) creates a solid foundation for the continuation of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday in the run-up to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s visit to Moscow on January 16.

“The joint action plan of the P5+1 and Iran, adopted in Geneva on November 24, 2013 has made it possible to come closer to the solution of one of the most complicated problems of international politics — the settlement of the situation around the Iranian nuclear program,” the ministry said in a comment. “The agreement reached in Geneva creates a solid foundation for the continuation of the talks with the aim of finding a comprehensive solution.”

Russia, as before, “will do everything that depends on it to ensure positive development of this process and attain the final settlement of the issue at the negotiating table.