Russian official sacked over remarks on missile sales: report
MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Andrei Nesterenko has been dismissed over what a local media report said was his recent controversial remarks about the country’s missile sales to Iran.
Nesterenko will be succeeded by Alexander Lukashevich, who previously served as Russia’s envoy to the OSCE, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
The Russian ministry has not issued any statements on Nesterenko’s replacement. Kommersant quoted its sources as saying that Nesterenko’s dismissal came after his comments about the country’s S-300 missile sales to Iran, which were disapproved by President Dmitry Medvedev.
Nesterenko said last June that despite new UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, Russia would continue to enforce the clauses of its agreement with the country. He said that the S-300 missile systems being sold to Tehran were not included in the category affected by the imposed restrictions. However,
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