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Iran warns EU on nuke activities2/16/2005 7:10:00 AM GMT "Both sides have been supposed to talk... to come up with the guarantee system", Kharrazi said Iranian foreign minister Kamel Kharrazi warned EU-big three Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday that they must make more economic and technological concessions to meet the deadline for agreement on the Islamic Republic nuclear activities. Iran, moreover, insisted that every country has the right to use nuclear energy in peaceful purposes and in accordance with related international laws, stressing that "double standard" should not be applied on the issue. Britain, France and Germany have initiated negotiations aimed at persuading Iran to halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, offering in return technological and financial support. Once again rejecting the U.S. claims that it is trying to produce nuclear weapons, Iran asserted on Tuesday that its nuclear program is only used for peaceful purposes. After talks with the Luxembourg government the Iranian Foreign Minister noted that negotiations with the three states still need much progress to reach a fruitful results. "It needs more efforts, more seriousness, more confidence building to be evaluated as a fruitful and positive process," he said. "So we have to try harder and be more serious." Kharrazi urged the 25-nation bloc to be more open on economic and political issues. Iran agreed last year to suspended its uranium enrichment program under a deal with France, Britain and Germany and hasn't decided yet whether it will continue the suspension, monitored by UN inspectors, or not. After meeting with the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stressed that nuclear energy should not be used for peaceful purposes, and not to target people, adding that all countries have the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Rowhani is in a three-day visit to Algeria. Earlier this month, Rowhani said Tehran might quit nuclear talks if no progress was made by March 20. "So both sides have been supposed to talk to each other to come up with the guarantee system. It is going on but still there is more room to be developed," Kharrazi said, adding that the negotiations would sink to the level of "talk in generalities without any tangible movement" if no measures were taken to open up the markets and enable the European technology to flow to Iran. On the other hand, Nicolas Schmit, Luxembourg's deputy Foreign Minister said he's hopeful about the outcome of the talks. "I am quite optimistic we will be able to achieve an agreement," he said. Commenting on N. Korea's recent announcement that it has nuclear weapons, Kharrazi said that Iran's case was a completely different one, as the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA's inspectors were still being allowed to conduct inspections in Tehran. He affirmed that Iran highly respects the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the international agreement barring the spread of nuclear weapons. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
