Russia, China to obstruct U.S. attempt to sabotage Iran nuclear deal - TASS

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a joint news conference with U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura following their meeting in Moscow, Russia April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart that Moscow and Beijing would try to block any U.S. attempt to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

"We are against revising these agreements, we consider it very counter productive to try to reduce to zero years of international work carried out via talks between the six major powers and Iran," TASS quoted Lavrov as saying after talks with Wang Yi, China's top diplomat, in Beijing.

"We will obstruct attempts to sabotage these agreements which were enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution," Lavrov was cited as saying.

(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Writing by Polina Nikolskaya; Editing by Andrew Osborn)