SOME ANTI-IRANIAN PUNISHMENT MEASURES WERE STOPPED AT RUSSIA’S DEMAND
By Petros Keshishian
AZG Armenian Daily
22/12/2006
The European member states of the UN Security Council submitted a
new draft on Iran’s nuclear program for discussion. The draft takes
into account the requirements of Russia concerning the issue. France
Press informed that the discussion of the new version of the formula
on Iran’s nuclear program will take place on Friday.
Vitali Churkin, Russian Ambassador at the world organizations, said
that the point that prohibited the travel of 12 Iranian officials
engaged in the nuclear program are withdrawn from the document. It
is suggested that the states should be only very cautious about them
and inform the commission about their visits.
The new draft also excludes the financial restrictions envisaged
for the participant companies and physical entities engaged in the
program. Churkin stated that there are only 2-3 unsettled issues,
at present. Five permanent members, as well as Germany, participate
in the discussion of the document.
The Security Council isn’t sure that the Iranian nuclear program is
of exclusively peaceful character.
Thus, they demand from Tehran to stop the program.
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad keeps insisting that
his country has the right to independently concentrate uranium and
create the relevant industrial bearers.