{"id":1188,"date":"2006-03-22T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/nuclear\/1188-rice-confident-of-agreement-to-pressure-iran"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:01:25","slug":"rice-confident-of-agreement-to-pressure-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/rice-confident-of-agreement-to-pressure-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice confident of agreement to pressure Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-28646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2006\/03\/rice.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"79\" style=\"float: right\" alt=\"Rice confident of agreement to pressure Iran\" title=\"Rice confident of agreement to pressure Iran\" border=\"0\" \/>Reuters &#8211; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she was confident an international agreement would be reached on way to pressure Iran to stop enriching uranium.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sometimes diplomacy takes a little bit of time but we&#8217;re working very hard on it,&quot; Rice told reporters. &quot;We will come up with a vehicle, I am quite certain of that. We have work to do, but this is the natural course of diplomacy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Security Council failed to reach agreement on Tuesday on how to respond to Iran&#8217;s nuclear programs.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, backed by China, wants to delete large sections of a Franco-British draft statement the Security Council has been studying for nearly two weeks as a first reaction to Iran&#8217;s nuclear research, which the West believes is a cover for bomb making. Iran has denied the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats at the United Nations said if there was no progress soon, bilateral contacts between capitals would be the next step. Russia, they said, has taken the toughest line.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative to a statement would be a Security Council resolution, which carries more weight, and would dare Russia and China to use their veto power. A statement needs agreement from all 15 members while a resolution needs nine votes in favor and no veto from any of the five permanent members.<\/p>\n<p>Rice said it was important &quot;for the international community to speak and speak strongly to Iran that it has no other course.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rice was in the Bahamas to meet with 14 foreign ministers and the secretary-general of the Caribbean Community and Common Market, a regional trade bloc known as CARICOM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &ndash; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she was confident an international agreement would be reached on way to pressure Iran to stop enriching uranium. &#8220;Sometimes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nuclear"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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