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Thursday, 24 September 2009
China believes sanctions on Iran "are not the way out," Bloomberg
quoted a government spokeswoman as saying in Beijing on Thursday.
"At present, it is not conducive to diplomatic efforts," Foreign
Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. The joint statement at
the UN that China signed "emphasized the resolution of the issue
through dialogue and negotiation and getting the Iranian nuclear issue
back to the track of dialogue."
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, Russia,
the UK, France and the US – and Germany will meet with Iranian
representatives on October 1 for the first time in more than a year in
an attempt to reduce tensions over Teheran’s refusal to curb nuclear
activities.
Iran says it wants to use enrichment technology to create nuclear
fuel, but there are international fears that it seeks to develop it to
reconfigure its program and make the fissile core of
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Ahead of the negotiations, the foreign ministers of the six nations
met Wednesday on the sidelines of the General Assembly to discuss how
to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment.
Russian news agencies cited an official in the Russian delegation as
saying Moscow does not rule out new sanctions against Iran over its
nuclear program.
Also Wednesday, with a diplomatic wink and nod, Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev opened the door to backing potential sanctions against
Iran as a reward to President Barack Obama’s decision to scale back a
US missile shield in Eastern Europe.
While US and Russian officials denied a flat-out quid pro quo,
Medvedev told the UN General Assembly that Obama’s pivot on a missile
defense plan long loathed by Moscow "deserves a positive response."
Obama himself has said his missile decision may have spurred Russian
good will as a "
"We believe we need to help Iran to take a right decision," Medvedev
said after the two leaders met on the sidelines of the UN assembly.
In related news, the Financial Times on Wednesday reported that
Chinese state companies began supplying gasoline to Iran earlier in
September and now provide up to one-third of its imports.
The Sino-Iranian deal may undermine US-led efforts to shut off the
supply of fuel on which Iran’s economy depends. Iran has large
reserves of crude oil but its refining capacity is minimal.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
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