NEW DEADLINE FOR IRAN BEFORE SANCTIONS

Ministers to 'have Iran for dinner' in London

Foreign ministers of six major powers to discuss Iran’s nuclear crisis, setting new deadline before sanctions.

LONDON - Foreign ministers of the six major powers will discuss the Iran crisis over dinner in London Friday, a diplomatic source said, although British authorities were refusing to confirm the talks.

The ministers from Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany will gather from late afternoon before an evening session seeking a compromise to persuade Iran to suspend nuclear enrichment, the source said.

The six powers agreed to set a new deadline this week for Iran to comply with a UN resolution demanding it freeze its uranium enrichment programme, which Washington and others believe is a cover for developing nuclear weapons.

Otherwise there is growing talk of imposing sanctions on Tehran.

After the London talks Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was expected to sum up the meeting on behalf of the so-called P5-plus-1 group -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, said the source.

The meeting was expected to agree that Iran "does not want to negotiate and draw conclusions from that," the European source told AFP.

The decision to hold the London talks, which have been rumoured for some days, was confirmed by a Russian foreign ministry spokesman in Moscow, quoted by the Interfax news agency.

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