The Russian Federation and Bahrain noted the importance of negotiations between the US and Iran based on the Islamabad Memorandum Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain Abdullatif Al-Zayani, during a telephone conversation on Wednesday, emphasized the importance of early resumption of negotiations between the US and Iran based on the Islamabad Memorandum, Smolenskaya Square reported. The importance of continuing international efforts to find ways to escalate tensions and an early renewal of the negotiation process between the US and Iran based on the Islamabad Memorandum signed on June 17 was emphasized.