The European Union Thursday offered to resume face-to-face talks with Iran over its nuclear activities, "without pre-conditions," a spokeswoman for foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said.
The European Union Thursday offered to resume face-to-face talks with
Iran
over
its nuclear activities, "without pre-conditions," a spokeswoman for
foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said.
The EU is "open to sitting down with
Iran
--obviously
without any pre-conditions," Maja Kocijancic said, with the international
community in agreement now that levels of uranium enrichment are "high
enough to cause concern."
In a statement released by Ashton overnight, in the name of the so-called
"5+1" grouping of nuclear powers the U.K., China, France, Germany,
Russia and the U.S., she said the International Atomic Energy Agency had set
out "increasing concern about the possible military dimensions to Iran's
nuclear program."
However, despite repeated prodding seeking to persuade
Iran
to
cooperate with inspections on potential military uses, there had been no
progress.
"We deeply regret that
Iran
has
failed to respond in kind" to various proposals put across by these
countries, Ashton said.
She said that a "twin-track" of negotiations and sanctions was the
preferred way forward.
Iran
this
month said it was ready to give the IAEA "full supervision" of its
nuclear program for five years if sanctions are lifted, as it alleged a rise in
"sabotage" of its controversial work.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague Wednesday told Iranian counterpart Ali
Akbar Salehi there were "important areas of disagreement," during a
meeting in
New York
.
The British ministry stressed that it respected
Iran
's
right to civil nuclear power, but that
Iran
"had not persuaded the international community that its nuclear program
was for peaceful purposes."
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