Thursday, November 17, 2005

US announces London meeting on Iran nuclear program tomorrow

Forbes:
The US said an informal meeting on Iran's nuclear program would be held in London on Friday, confirming reports, after Tehran resumed nuclear fuel work that it had earlier suspended.

A State Department spokesman said that Nicholas Burns, the US undersecretary of state for political affairs, was leaving for London to meet with officials from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and others to discuss what he called Iran's 'unwelcome move' to resume converting uranium into uranium hexafluoride.

'This is an unwelcome move; one that we view with concern,' said spokesman Adam Ereli, adding that the IAEA has confirmed Iran's return to uranium conversion efforts. READ MORE

'It is the latest in a series of moves by Iran that, frankly, go against what they themselves have committed themselves to and what the international community has asked of them.'

Burns will meet his counterparts in London to 'hear their views, hear what they think, what their assessments are; and consider again, as I said earlier, how together we can all act to accomplish our common goal,' Ereli said.