Minggu, 08 April 2012

Iran and Group of 5+ 1 set for turkey on april 14th , follow up meeting allegedly set for Iraq. Of course with the positions set forth by the West and the expected reaction from Iran , there won't need to be a reason to worry about follow up meeting in Iraq.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Apr-07/169534-turkey-still-ready-to-host-iran-nuclear-talks.ashx#axzz1rTarAgV6


Turkey still ready to host Iran nuclear talks
Agence France Presse
TEHRAN: Turkey is still ready to host talks between Iran and the P5+1 group on Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, Ankara has told the Islamic Republic’s nuclear chief, Al-Alam television reported Friday.


The Arabic-language Iranian channel said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had spoken to Iran’s chief negotiator Sayeed Jalili about the talks slated for April 13 and 14 but whose location has yet to be confirmed.
“Relations between Iran and Turkey are strategic and brotherly. Turkey is ready to welcome the next negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group,” Al-Alam said Davutoglu told Jalili, citing a Supreme National Security Council source.
At the same time, Davutoglu was quoted as saying that “Iran’s proposal to hold these talks in Baghdad is an intelligent one.”
After originally proposing that the negotiations be held in Istanbul, Tehran then suggested either Baghdad or Beijing as the venue.
On Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Iran to act honestly after its about-face on Istanbul as the location for the talks.
“It is necessary to act honestly. They continue to lose prestige in the world because of a lack of honesty,” Erdogan told a televised news conference in the latest salvo in a war of words between the two countries.
Erdogan spoke a day after Iranian officials announced that Tehran no longer wanted Turkey to host the next round of talks, apparently because of Ankara’s stance on the Syria crisis.
Iran last held talks with the six powers – Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States – in January 2011 with no results.
Al-Alam reported that Ankara’s ambassador in Tehran, Umit Yardim, had met Jalili’s deputy Ali Bargheri “to provide explanations” about Erdogan’s remarks. “Turkey’s president and prime minister have great esteem for the Islamic Republic, its supreme leader [Ali Khamenei] and president [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad],” it reported Yardim as saying.



The station added that Yardim said “Turkey supports the position of the Islamic Republic in the nuclear issue.”
Western powers and Israel suspect Iran’s program of uranium enrichment masks a drive to manufacture nuclear weapons, but Tehran says the sensitive work is for peaceful purposes only.
Neither the United States nor Iran’s archfoe Israel has ruled out a military response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
For the past two years Turkey has mediated between Iran and world powers on the nuclear issue.
But Ankara’s increasingly strident stance against Iran ally Syria over more than a year of deadly violence there, as well as its agreement to implement a NATO-led early warning defense system last year, has soured relations.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast also sought to soothe diplomatic ties Friday.
“Statements by people in the two countries should not affect the strategic relations between Iran and Turkey,” he said, apparently referring to comments by hard-liners denouncing Turkey’s hostile stance toward the Syrian regime.
“Iran and Turkey are two powerful and influential countries in the region ... which have strategic relations and common positions.”

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/08/c_131513708.htm


Turkey's Istanbul to host Iran-G5+1 nuclear talks: TV

English.news.cn   2012-04-08 18:16:28             

TEHRAN, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Iranian local satellite Press TV reported Sunday that Turkish city Istanbul has been confirmed as the venue for a next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the UN Security Council plus Germany (G5+1) slated for next week.
Iranian state-owned TV said Iran confirmed the venue for the new round of the talks but did not mention the source of the news.
Also, local semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday that after weeks of debates, Iran and the six world powers agreed to attend the meeting in Istanbul.
Quoting an unnamed source, Fars said that in case of good progress in Istanbul talks, following round of talks will be held in Iraq's capital city of Baghdad. The news has not been officially confirmed by the G5+1.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council's (SNSC) Undersecretary Ali Baqeri and the EU foreign policy deputy chief have agreed on April 14 as the date for holding the talks, Fars said according to the source.
It was previously reported that the six world powers and Iran will meet in Turkey's Istanbul on April 13 and 14 for talks over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
But, Iran recently proposed that Iraq and some other countries should also be considered as the venue for the talks.
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Iran not to stop high-grade uranium enrichment, not to close Fordo nuclear site: nuclear chief

English.news.cn   2012-04-08 23:06:34             


TEHRAN, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi said Sunday that Iran will not stop high-grade uranium enrichment and will not close down the Fordo nuclear site, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
Abbasi told ISNA that there is no justification for the demands by the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany (G5+ 1) to stop the enrichment of uranium to the grade of 20 percent in Iran.
However, he added that "We won't enrich 20-percent uranium beyond our needs, because it is not economical to produce and to keep it."
"We will produce (20-percent uranium) to the amount to meet the needs of Tehran research reactor and the reactors that we are planning to build in future," he was quoted as saying.
Abbasi's remarks came just a few days ahead of the nuclear talks between Iran and the six world powers slated for next week.

Reports said Sunday that in the coming nuclear talks between Iran and G5+1, the United States and its Western allies will demand Iran to suspend its high-grade uranium enrichment and close down Fordo nuclear enrichment site.
Abbasi said that Iran will not close down the underground Fordo enrichment site near the central city of Qom under the West's pressure.
"The demands of G5+1 to suspend the (enrichment) activities in Fordo site is illogical," said the Iranian atomic chief, adding that building a nuclear site underground is a countermove to the strike threats by some countries.
Iranian satellite Press TV reported earlier Sunday that Turkish city Istanbul has been confirmed as the venue for the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and G5+1. The TV later removed the news from its website.
Local semi-official Fars news agency also reported Sunday that after weeks of debates, Iran and the six world powers agreed to attend the meeting in Istanbul.
Quoting an unnamed source, Fars said that if there is good progress in Istanbul talks, the following round of talks will be held in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.
The news has not been officially confirmed by the G5+1.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Undersecretary Ali Baqeri and the EU foreign policy deputy chief have agreed on April 14 as the date for holding the talks, Fars quoted the unnamed source as saying.
It was previously reported that G5+1 and Iran will meet in Istanbul on April 13 and April 14 for talks over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. However, Iran later proposed that Iraq and some other countries should also be considered as the venue for the talks.
On Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran wants nothing beyond the rights enshrined by Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the official IRNA news agency reported.


Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with the visiting former Japanese premier Yukio Hatoyama in Tehran.
He criticized G5+1 for setting unilateral demands in the nuclear talks, saying that the two parties must consider each other's demands in the negotiations, according to IRNA.
Iran will put forward practical proposals in the upcoming nuclear talks with G5+1, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Saturday that the next round of nuclear talks will give the West a "chance" to establish trust, Press TV reported.
Tehran will not give up its nuclear rights as a signatory to the NPT and as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Salehi in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tehran.
"Iran has endured all problems and restrictions for more than three decades to preserve its political independence and is determined continue this path," he was quoted as saying.
In a message to Iran's supreme leader, U.S. President Barack Obama said that Tehran can have a civilian nuclear program if it never pursues a nuclear weapon, the Washington Post reported Friday.
"President Obama has signalled to Iran that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Supreme Leader (Ayatollah) Ali Khamenei can back up his recent public claim that his nation 'will never pursue nuclear weapons,'" said the report.
The newspaper said that the verbal message was sent to Khamenei via Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited Tehran last week.
But Obama did not specify whether Iran would be allowed to enrich uranium domestically, and this delicate issue evidently would be left for the upcoming talks between Iran and G5+1, said the report.

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