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Iran 'must face Security Council' Tuesday, January 31, 2006; Posted: 4:34 a.m. EST (09: LONDON, England (AP) -- The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council reached a surprising agreement Tuesday that Iran should be hauled before the powerful body over its disputed nuclear program. China and Russia, longtime allies and trading partners of Iran, signed up to a statement that calls on the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions. The IAEA meets in Vienna on Thursday. Though the United States, Britain and France have been pressing to hand Iran's case to the Security Council, it had been unclear whether China and Russia would support such a move. The foreign ministers from the five nations said, however, that the Security Council should wait until March to take up the Iran case, after a formal report from the atomic agency. on Tehran's activities. Iran reacted immediately, said there was no legal basis for hauling them up before the world body. Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is also the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said despite the recommendation of the five nations, it was difficult to predict what would happen at Thursday's IAEA meeting. "The biggest problem for the West is that they can't find any (legal) justification to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council," the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency quoted the vice president as saying. (Full story) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts discussed Iran at a private dinner at the home of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. After the four-hour meeting, which spilled over into the early hours of Tuesday, a joint statement called on the IAEA to report the Iran case at the meeting Thursday. With support from Germany and the European Union, whose foreign ministers also attended the dinner, the overall agreement amounted to a compromise -- take the case to the Security Council but allow a short breather before the council undertakes what could be a divisive debate. Any of the five permanent members of the Security Council, all nuclear powers themselves, can veto an action voted by the full council membership. The group agreed that the IAEA "should report to the Security Council its decision on the steps required of Iran, and should also report to the Security Council all IAEA reports and resolutions as adopted relating to this issue," a statement from the group said. (Full text) The IAEA has already found Iran in violation of nuclear obligations and issued a stern warning to Tehran in September. Thursday's vote would be the next step, one long sought by the United States. Iran insists its nuclear program is intended only to produce electricity. The United States and some allies say Iran is hiding ambitions to build a nuclear bomb, but the Security Council members have been divided about how strong a line to take. A French government official, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity, said the Russian and Chinese ministers had initially been reluctant to agree to refer Iran to the Security Council, but were persuaded of the need for the council members to show a united front. "This is in the hands of the IAEA," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said of the agreement. "We're not going to say anything at this point." On Monday, Rice said the world agreed that Iran should not have the means of developing a nuclear weapon, and she criticized Iran's response to Russian attempts to mediate in the standoff. Iran broke U.N. seals at a uranium enrichment plant Jan. 10 and said it would resume nuclear fuel research after a two-year freeze. Tehran said the research would involve what it called limited uranium enrichment, but the action raised fears Tehran was using its pursuit of atomic power as a front for a nuclear weapons program. In Vienna, a diplomat familiar with the Iran probe said IAEA inspectors were allowed access to the Lavizan-Shian site -- believed to be the repository of equipment bought by the Iranian military that could be used in a nuclear weapons program. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in Tehran on Sunday that IAEA inspectors trying to gain access to the site for more than a year had been given the information they sought. ++++++ Permanent members' Iran statement Tuesday, January 31, 2006; Posted: 2:47 a.m. EST (07:47 GMT) LONDON (Reuters) -- Following is the full text of a statement issued by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw concerning an agreement on Iran made by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, Germany and the European Union on Tuesday. The Foreign Ministers of China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union met this evening, 30 January 2006, and agreed the following: "Ministers: a.. underlined their commitment to the NPT and their determination to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons; a.. shared serious concerns about Iran's nuclear program, and agreed that an extensive period of confidence-building was required from Iran; a.. called on Iran to restore in full the suspension of enrichment-related activity, including R&D, under the supervision of the IAEA; a.. agreed that this week's Extraordinary IAEA Board meeting should report to the Security Council its decision on the steps required from Iran, and should also report to the Security Council all IAEA reports and resolutions, as adopted, relating to this issue; a.. agreed that the Security Council should await the Director General's report to the March meeting of the IAEA Board, which would include a report on the implementation of the February Board's Resolution, and any Resolution from the March meeting, before deciding to take action to reinforce the authority of the IAEA process; a.. confirmed their resolve to continue to work for a diplomatic solution to the Iran problem." ++++ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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