Wednesday, June 20, 2007

DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - THE WEST/IRAN: A NEW ROUND OF TALKS ABOUT IRANS NUKE PROGRAM SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 23

Iran-EU nuclear talks on June 23

TEHRAN: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and the European Union’s foreign policy chief will meet for a new round of talks about Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme on June 23 in Lisbon, an Iranian news agency said yesterday.


Citing an official Iranian statement, the Mehr News Agency said Iran’s Ali Larijani and the EU’s Javier Solana would hold talks in Portugal’s capital on Saturday. In Brussels, Solana’s office could not confirm the date or place of any meeting.

Their last meeting in Madrid on May 31 yielded no breakthrough on Iran’s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment as a condition for broader negotiations on trade and other benefits.

Iran says its programme to produce nuclear fuel through uranium enrichment is solely for electricity generation but Western powers suspect it wants to build bombs.

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