Major powers send Iran nuclear issue to UN envoys: US

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and five other world powers have agreed to send the issue of Iran's disputed nuclear program to their UN representatives, after failing to resolve differences, the US State Department said.

Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns and political directors from China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany held new discussions by phone and "discussions will now move to New York where our United Nations permanent representatives will take up work on this issue," spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in a statement Saturday.

"There is still some work to be done on a few outstanding issues, but all parties remain committed to a second resolution in the near future," he said.

"They had a good discussion in keeping with the positive atmosphere of their conversations" in recent days, he said.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070304/pl_afp/irannuclearpoliticsus_070304112852

[HuffleClaw]

1. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

what a NON-fucking story.

[Eugene]

2. (AP) Diplomats: Iran Still Refuses Cameras

Diplomats: Iran Still Refuses Cameras

By GEORGE JAHN
The Associated Press
Sunday, March 4, 2007; 5:00 PM

VIENNA, Austria -- Iran is still refusing U.N. requests to put up cameras with
a full view of the site where the Islamic Republic is assembling what it says
will eventually be 54,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges, diplomats said ahead
of a key meeting on Iran's nuclear program.

The 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency was expected
at the meeting starting Monday to approve a decision last month by agency
chief Mohamed ElBaradei to suspend nearly half the technical aid his agency
provides to Iran. Such a move would be symbolically significant because
only North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq had faced such punishment in
the past.

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Lack of full remote monitoring means that the agency cannot keep tabs on
all activities at the underground bunker in the desert outside the central
Iranian city of Natanz, said one of the diplomats, who demanded anonymity
because he was not allowed to discuss the confidential file with the media.
Iran continues to assemble individual centrifuges in the hall after setting
up hundreds of them earlier this year, he said.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030400815.html