MANAMA, Oct. 18 -- Russia's foreign minister used a Gulf meeting in Bahrain to offer a security plan and was handed a request in return. Bahrain's foreign minister, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, told a Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council meeting on Sunday that the six-nation bloc expects Moscow to use its ties with Iran, TASS reported.

Zayani said the council expects Russia "to use its ties with Iran to encourage it to fully comply with" UN Security Council Resolution 2817, and to support Gulf participation "in any negotiations or agreements related to Iran's nuclear and missile programs." The states of the region, he added, are the most likely to suffer from those programs.

The text he cited is not one Moscow voted for. Resolution 2817 ...