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Sat, 07/19/2008 - 15:26
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New round of talks on Iranian nuclear problem to begin in Geneva
GENEVA, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - A new round of talks on settling the
Iranian nuclear problem begins here Saturday.
It is was initially planned that the talks would be held between the European Union's High Representative for External Policy, Javier Solana, and the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, but reports came later that envoys of six negotiating countries - five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany - would join them, too.
The six countries press Iran to stop uranium enrichment activity as they view it as an encroachment on the international nuclear
non-proliferation regime.
In exchange for a laying-up of the uranium enrichment projects, they propose a freeze on international sanctions against Teheran and a
resumption of diversified cooperation, including in the field of peaceful atomic energy.
A demand to Iran to stop the enrichment operations was featured in the political part of the recent summit conference of the G8 in Hokkaido, Japan.
The leaders of the eight most industrialized nations urged the
Iranians to establish full-scale cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made it clear at the beginning of the week that the sides hope to agree on the format and schedule of future negotiations.
Teheran officials indicated a certain coincidence of Iran's and the West's positions and claimed this could lay grounds for global
negotiations.
The important political news in this respect came from Washington,
however, where officials said that the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, William Burns, would take part in the Geneva
consultations.
This marked a definite change in the U.S. position, as the
Administration said earlier any talks with Iran on its parts were possible only after the folding up of Teheran's nuclear programs.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said in Ankara Friday the participation of the high-rank U.S. representative in the talks, the first ever such instance over many years, gave a glimmer of hope that the process would be extricated from the deadlock.
Simultaneously, he said the two sides might consider an opening of
each other's diplomatic missions in Washington and Teheran and the
launching of direct flights between the two countries.
Iranian nuclear problem begins here Saturday.
It is was initially planned that the talks would be held between the European Union's High Representative for External Policy, Javier Solana, and the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, but reports came later that envoys of six negotiating countries - five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany - would join them, too.
The six countries press Iran to stop uranium enrichment activity as they view it as an encroachment on the international nuclear
non-proliferation regime.
In exchange for a laying-up of the uranium enrichment projects, they propose a freeze on international sanctions against Teheran and a
resumption of diversified cooperation, including in the field of peaceful atomic energy.
A demand to Iran to stop the enrichment operations was featured in the political part of the recent summit conference of the G8 in Hokkaido, Japan.
The leaders of the eight most industrialized nations urged the
Iranians to establish full-scale cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made it clear at the beginning of the week that the sides hope to agree on the format and schedule of future negotiations.
Teheran officials indicated a certain coincidence of Iran's and the West's positions and claimed this could lay grounds for global
negotiations.
The important political news in this respect came from Washington,
however, where officials said that the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, William Burns, would take part in the Geneva
consultations.
This marked a definite change in the U.S. position, as the
Administration said earlier any talks with Iran on its parts were possible only after the folding up of Teheran's nuclear programs.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said in Ankara Friday the participation of the high-rank U.S. representative in the talks, the first ever such instance over many years, gave a glimmer of hope that the process would be extricated from the deadlock.
Simultaneously, he said the two sides might consider an opening of
each other's diplomatic missions in Washington and Teheran and the
launching of direct flights between the two countries.
