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DIALOGUE WITH EUROPE IS USELESS, SAYS AHMADINEJAD
The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that there will be no dialogue with Europe because it is a waste of time. This point was underlined by the Iranian leader during his first appearance in front of the committee of foreign affairs and national security of the Majlis, the parliament in Tehran."The president, defined the attempts by the governments of the past 16 years to bring to the table a dialogue with Europe and to try and reduce tensions, as a waste of time which has so far not produced any tangible results for our country," Kazem Jalali, a member of the commission, told the media. "The policies of the previous governments, has distanced the Islamic republic from its revolutionary origins and produced a damaging laxity," added Jalali who was quoting the words used by Ahmadinejad. The governments that Ahmadinejad was criticising are those of the former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani had taken part to the "critical dialogue" with the European Union while during his presidency, Khatami participated in a "constructive dialogue". In his meeting with the various leaders of the committee, Ahmadinejad also spoke of the nuclear negotiations. "No negotiations with any countries or bodies on the activities of the plants in Isfahan and Natanza," said Ahmadinejad. The plant in Isfahan, currently active, is where raw uranium is transformed into gas, while in Natanza the centrifuges have been arranged for the necessary enrichment of the uranium. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also told the parlimentarians about his last two proposals to send Iranian observers to Europe, to evaluate the respect of human rights in the West, and the formation of a international scientific committee to evaluate the truthfulness behind the Holocaust. "The committee received this final proposal by Ahmadinejad with enthusiasm," said Kazem Jalali. The president of the Majlis, Ali Asghar Haddad Adel, also welcomed these two proposals. "To examine all the documents related to the Holocaust and to hear the diverse opinions to this proposal, permits a clarification that will produce very positive results and will put an end once and for all to the divergence that dominates this historical fact," said Haddad Adel. For Hamid Reza Asefi, the spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, "sending Islamic observers to the West to evaluate the situation of human rights in Europe, allows for a joint evaluation on what are the rights that really have to be guaranteed to citizens." Posted by: ed 2006-01-03 |
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