MOSCOW, March 19 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday that Russia could sign up to a sanctions resolution on Iran, Russian news agencies quoted a senior Putin aide as saying.
Putin's deputy chief of staff, Yuri Ushakov, was quoted as saying that Putin had affirmed that a sanctions resolution 'was possible,' Itar-Tass news agency reported.
'Vladimir Vladimirovich gave his appraisal of the situation in Iran and underlined that such a situation (involving Russian support of a sanctions resolution) was possible,' RIA state news agency quoted Ushakov as saying.
But Putin also cautioned Clinton that sanctions 'do not always help to resolve such an issue and that sometimes they can have a counterproductive impact,' Ushakov was quoted as saying by RIA.
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Putin's deputy chief of staff, Yuri Ushakov, was quoted as saying that Putin had affirmed that a sanctions resolution 'was possible,' Itar-Tass news agency reported.
'Vladimir Vladimirovich gave his appraisal of the situation in Iran and underlined that such a situation (involving Russian support of a sanctions resolution) was possible,' RIA state news agency quoted Ushakov as saying.
But Putin also cautioned Clinton that sanctions 'do not always help to resolve such an issue and that sometimes they can have a counterproductive impact,' Ushakov was quoted as saying by RIA.
(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Steve Gutterman) (guy.faulconbridge@reuters.com, +7 495 775 12 42) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.