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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
SEVIL KÜÇÜKKOŞUM
ANKARA- Hürriyet Daily News
Turkey has called on Iran and Western powers to implement the nuclear fuel swap agreement and launch talks as soon as possible before the standoff over Tehran's atomic program worsens.
"If they do not sit down and talk, we will be in a worse-off situation this time next year. Time is working against a solution," Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Özügergin told a press conference Monday.
Reiterating Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks saying Iran would wait until the end of the Iranian month of Mordad in late August, Özügergin said the talks should take place before then. Ahmadinejad said they froze talks with the P5+1 group (consisting of representatives from Britain, France, Russia, China, the United States and Germany) over Iran’s uranium enrichment program as a "penalty” for the new sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council.
Özügergin said the nuclear fuel swap agreement was an "important confidence-building measure.”
“We would like this deal to be implemented and for negotiations to be held to resolve outstanding issues" to secure a peaceful settlement to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, he said.
Meanwhile, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton wrote to Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, inviting him to resume negotiations on behalf of the five U.N. Security Council veto holders (the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France) and Germany. Ankara expects this meeting will resume talks.
“Hereafter the process becomes more sensitive. There is the upcoming congressional election in the U.S. The Congress might put pressure on the Obama administration over Iran’s nuclear issue. So any step regarding talks on a nuclear swap deal should be taken considering related states’ internal dynamics,” diplomatic sources told Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.
The U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran called for International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano to report within 90 days on whether Iran has fully suspended uranium enrichment activities, in line with a previous demand from the council. “The content of the report is important for resuming talks on the swap deal,” sources said.
The nuclear fuel swap deal was brokered by Turkey and Brazil in May in order to prevent the new round of sanctions against Iran. However, Western powers claimed that the swap deal did not give adequate or sufficient guarantees to halt the new sanctions.
SEVIL KÜÇÜKKOŞUM
ANKARA- Hürriyet Daily News
Turkey has called on Iran and Western powers to implement the nuclear fuel swap agreement and launch talks as soon as possible before the standoff over Tehran's atomic program worsens.
"If they do not sit down and talk, we will be in a worse-off situation this time next year. Time is working against a solution," Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Özügergin told a press conference Monday.
Reiterating Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks saying Iran would wait until the end of the Iranian month of Mordad in late August, Özügergin said the talks should take place before then. Ahmadinejad said they froze talks with the P5+1 group (consisting of representatives from Britain, France, Russia, China, the United States and Germany) over Iran’s uranium enrichment program as a "penalty” for the new sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council.
Özügergin said the nuclear fuel swap agreement was an "important confidence-building measure.”
“We would like this deal to be implemented and for negotiations to be held to resolve outstanding issues" to secure a peaceful settlement to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program, he said.
Meanwhile, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton wrote to Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, inviting him to resume negotiations on behalf of the five U.N. Security Council veto holders (the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France) and Germany. Ankara expects this meeting will resume talks.
“Hereafter the process becomes more sensitive. There is the upcoming congressional election in the U.S. The Congress might put pressure on the Obama administration over Iran’s nuclear issue. So any step regarding talks on a nuclear swap deal should be taken considering related states’ internal dynamics,” diplomatic sources told Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.
The U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran called for International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano to report within 90 days on whether Iran has fully suspended uranium enrichment activities, in line with a previous demand from the council. “The content of the report is important for resuming talks on the swap deal,” sources said.
The nuclear fuel swap deal was brokered by Turkey and Brazil in May in order to prevent the new round of sanctions against Iran. However, Western powers claimed that the swap deal did not give adequate or sufficient guarantees to halt the new sanctions.
