The European Union hopes Iran will take the opportunity of a technical meeting about its nuclear program Tuesday to show it is ready to take concrete steps to address international concerns about its activities, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said Monday.
The European Union hopes
Iran
will
take the opportunity of a technical meeting about its nuclear program Tuesday
to show it is ready to take concrete steps to address international concerns
about its activities, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said
Monday.
"We hope
Iran
will
seize the opportunity of this meeting to show a willingness to take concrete
steps to urgently meet the concerns of the international community, to build
confidence in the peaceful nature of
Iran
's
nuclear programme and to meet its international obligations," Catherine
Ashton said in a statement.
Her comments come a day after the EU introduced a full embargo on
Iran
's
crude oil exports because of
Tehran
's
nuclear activities.
Talks between the international community and
Iran
have
ground to a virtual halt over the last few weeks following what EU and
U.S.
officials say were disappointing negotiations in
Moscow
last
month and in
Baghdad
in
May.
After the Moscow talks, the EU announced on behalf of the P5+1 that they were
open to further technical talks with Iran but would not commit to senior-level
discussions until Tehran gave clearer signs it was ready to discuss substance.
The P5+1 is the
U.S.
,
France
,
Germany
, the
U.K.
,
Russia
and
China
.
European and U.S. officials say while Iran has promised to discuss the P5+1
proposal on Iran stopping its nuclear enrichment activities at 20% purity,
Tehran has not yet engaged seriously on the issue.
Iran
says
its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes. The
U.S.
and
some European countries say
Iran
is
seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
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