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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Major U.N. Security Council powers have agreed on an incremental increase in sanctions on Iran, including a new restriction on exporters doing business with the country, diplomats said Thursday.
A draft resolution also calls for more monitoring of Iran's military and financial institutions, broader travel bans on Iranian nuclear scientists and other key officials, and freezing the assets of people and banks linked to weapons proliferation, Security Council diplomats told The Associated Press.
Diplomats from the five nations with veto power on the council — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — spent a third day negotiating a final agreement on principles that would form the basis for a third round of U.N. sanctions on Iran. They were joined by Germany, which has long been involved in efforts to resolve the Iran nuclear dispute.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
London (dpa) - Britain on Wednesday welcomed the agreement reached on a new UN Security Council resolution on Iran's nuclear enrichment programme and urged Tehran to respond positively to international pressure to suspend its nuclear activities.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who took part in the latest round of discussions of the UN's five veto powers and Germany in Berlin Tuesday, said the meeting was "united, constructive and determined."
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
 BERLIN (AFP) — World powers reached agreement Tuesday on a new UN Security Council resolution against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
"We agreed on the content of the next Security Council resolution," Steinmeier said after the meeting in Berlin of foreign ministers from the five permanent members of the Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany.
Steinmeier said the resolution would be presented to the Security Council "in the coming weeks."
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
BERLIN (Reuters) - World powers said they would have to overcome key differences on Tuesday to agree on a new sanctions resolution against Iran that aims to ratchet up pressure on Tehran to curb sensitive nuclear work.
Ahead of a meeting in Berlin of foreign ministers from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said powers still had "some way to go" in agreeing a third U.N. sanctions resolution.
The West has been engaged in a diplomatic showdown with Iran over its nuclear programme since 2002 and the Security Council has already imposed two sets of mild sanctions -- the first in December 2006 and second in March 2007.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
PARIS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree on Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said.
The senior diplomat, who briefed reporters Monday on condition that he not be identified by name, said an agreement was very close and should be finalized by the six nation's foreign ministers at a meeting in Berlin, Germany. He would not give details on the resolution but said it would be "very balanced, very firm" and likely be presented to the U.N. Security Council at the end of the month.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Germany's foreign minister said Thursday that the international community remains determined to prevent Iran from developing technology for nuclear weapons, despite U.S. assessments saying Tehran has stopped working on an arms program.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke before a briefing by Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on the U.N. nuclear agency chief's recent meeting with top Iranian leaders.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte sought Chinese backing Thursday for new U.N. sanctions against Iran, warning that Tehran's alleged uranium enrichment and missile development programs remained a threat, the Associated Press reported.
Negroponte said he would raise the issue in talks with Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo at the fifth session of their semiannual U.S.-China Senior Dialogue, that will also to touch on Taiwan, Sudan, human rights and efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear program, Negroponte said.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
BERLIN (AP) --Authorities have arrested a German man of Iranian descent on suspicion of attempting to export materials "relevant to nuclear technology" to Iran, the federal prosecutor's office said Wednesday.
The 52-year-old, identified only as Dr. Ahmad R., was arrested Tuesday in Berlin, the prosecutor said in a statement.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Iran has sped up efforts to develop long-range missiles, demonstrating the need for a proposed missile defense system in Europe, the head of the US missile defense program said Wednesday.
"They are developing missiles today in an accelerated pace," Lt. Gen. Henry Obering said at the Foreign Ministry in the Czech Republic, one of the two European sites Washington has in mind.
Obering, director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said Iran was the third most active country in flight-testing missiles last year, behind Russia and China.
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