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| No enrichment at all: EU draft |
| 2006-05-13 |
| The European Union will insist on Monday that Iran suspend all uranium enrichment despite Tehran’s demand that some be allowed for research goals, according to a draft declaration obtained by Reuters on Friday. “The EU Council calls on the Iranian authorities to cooperate fully with the IAEA, suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development,” said the declaration drafted for EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday. Tehran said on Thursday that a proposal being drawn up by European states on its nuclear programme must allow Iran to enrich uranium for atomic research and development purposes. Diplomats said the “EU3” states of Britain, France and Germany could meet on the margins of the Brussels talks to discuss a new package of incentives and sanctions designed to lure Iran back to the negotiating table. The foreign ministers’ declaration gave no details of that package but stated, “The EU would be prepared to support Iran’s development of a safe, sustainable and proliferation-proof civilian nuclear programme if international concerns were fully addressed and confidence in Iran’s intentions established.” The United States said on Thursday that it would not hold direct contacts with Iran and insisted that sanctions must be part of a new carrots-and-sticks offer being drawn up by major powers to curb Iran’s nuclear activities. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Dying continent. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-13 13:55 |
| #8 Dead letter |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-05-13 12:58 |
| #7 The dreaded tranzi Strongly Worded Letter.™ V. sent back, t's twerent crossed and i's twerent dotted. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-13 11:13 |
| #6 Whatever will Iran do? I. Leave it in the mailbox for months. B. Send it back for laka postage. iii. Claim inliteracy IV. Claim concealed damage to the letter. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-05-13 10:13 |
| #5 Stand in awe as the Euros make amazing use of 'soft power'. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-05-13 09:27 |
| #4 Operation Pretty Please rolls on... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-13 08:22 |
| #3 Expect heavy revision over the weekend. By Monday the final draft will read, "We demand that Iran develop no more than 500 fission and 300 fusion weapons over the next 10 years...." |
| Posted by: AzCat 2006-05-13 01:21 |
| #2 MadMoud has already rejected any attempts by the West or anyone to limit Iran's attempt to enrich uranium - the best the West will likely get is Iran halting at a higher-than-neeeded/admitted level of uranium enrichment dual-usable for both domestic energy + suffic explosive yield-CEP's for nuke devices. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-13 00:46 |
| #1 Oh, dear! The dreaded tranzi Strongly Worded Letter.™ Whatever will Iran do? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-13 00:34 |