http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6105787&cKey=1127468128000&ticker=trueVIENNA (Reuters) - Russia wants to water down an IAEA resolution that would have cleared the way for reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council over its suspected ambition to build nuclear bombs, EU diplomats said on Friday.
They said Moscow had proposed a revised draft resolution to try to break a deadlock at the International Atomic Energy Agency over how to deal with an Iranian nuclear programme that the West fears has military aims, despite Iranian denials.
The Russian draft, obtained by Reuters, removes all language that would force the U.N. nuclear watchdog to report Iran to the Security Council, which can impose sanctions, by declaring it in non-compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
"They would like us to back down," a diplomat from one of the European Union's three biggest powers -- Britain, France and Germany -- said about the Russian proposal. But he said use of the term non-compliance was "non-negotiable" for the Europeans.
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