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| World powers meet on Iran nuclear program |
| 2007-12-01 |
OFFICIALS from six world powers held talks in Paris about Iran's nuclear program, a day after an 18-month EU effort to persuade Tehran to stop enriching uranium collapsed. US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns joined representatives from the foreign ministries of Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany for the closed-door talks at the French Foreign Ministry. The meeting, involving the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, was expected to focus on a new push to find common language for a third set of UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities. EU envoy Javier Solana held meetings with Saeed Jalili, Iran's senior nuclear negotiator, in London. Afterward, Solana said he was disappointed and suggested no more meetings were planned. The London meeting had been considered a last chance for Iran to give in to UN pressure and freeze its enrichment program before an European Union report on Iran's nuclear program that will be used in the discussion of new sanctions. The United States, France and Britain are urging quick and tough new sanctions, but statements by Russia and China have suggested they are sceptical. Jalili said Iran was not worried about the prospect of new penalties and noted advances in enrichment technology since the earlier sanctions were imposed. Iran has set up and is running 3,000 enriching machines, or centrifuges, in the space of a year. The Security Council imposed sanctions in December 2006 and March this year. The current set bans Iranian arms exports and freezes the assets of 28 people and groups involved in its nuclear and missile programs. While Iran insists it has a right to peaceful use of enrichment to generate power, Washington and others fear the activity could be misused to create the fissile core of nuclear warheads |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #3 Maybe I'm just a man of few words, but I can't imagine how anyone in their right mind could possibly talk about this anymore. It's a QUAGMIRE! |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-12-01 19:16 |
| #2 OFFICIALS from six world powers held talks in Paris about Iran's nuclear program, a day after an 18-month EU effort to persuade Tehran to stop enriching uranium collapsed. Maybe it's just me, but what the fuck is wrong with these people? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-01 17:38 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-12-01 17:37 |