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News agencies – World powers sought a response from Iranian regime Friday over a proposal for ending the decade-long nuclear crisis.<\/p>\nNews agencies – World powers sought a response from Iranian regime Friday over a proposal for ending the decade-long nuclear crisis.<\/p>\n
The world powers will be assessing whether Iranian regime is ready to accept a series of demands that the powers presented at the last such negotiations at the same venue in Kazakhstan in February.<\/p>\n
In the first round of an expected two days of talks in the mountain city of Almaty, Iranian regime’s chief negotiator Saeed Jalili has presented proposals of his own, in a scenario all too familiar from years of stalled nuclear talks.<\/p>\n
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who represents the world powers, had said going into the talks that she hoped Iran would make a “considered, balanced and well-thought out response to try and reach an agreement on how we move forward.”<\/p>\n
The six powers have moved from demanding a total end to enrichment. As a first step, they now are asking Iranian regime only to stop production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20 per cent, which is just a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium. A halt to production and stockpiling would keep Iranian regime’s supply below the amount needed for further processing into a weapon.<\/p>\n
Iranian regime’s negotiator defiantly indicated going into Friday’s session that the regime had no intention of giving ground on the most important concession demanded by the West.<\/p>\n
Saeed Jalili told the six powers — comprised of the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany and known collectively as the P5+1 — that Iranian regime demanded an immediate recognition of his regime’s right to enrich uranium.<\/p>\n
“We think that they can open up tomorrow’s (Friday’s) talks with one phrase — and that is to accept Iran’s right, particularly its right to enrich,” Jalili said in a speech Thursday at an Almaty university.<\/p>\n
The demand is inherently objectionable to the powers because Iranian regime is prohibited from enriching uranium by the United Nations and is heavily sanctioned for its secretive work.<\/p>\n
Jalili also appeared to downplay the chances of his one-on-one meeting with chief US negotiator Wendy Sherman — talks Washington has been seeking for years.<\/p>\n
“What our nation is expecting is for the US to correct its behaviour, and not just in words, and tomorrow in Almaty they are in for another test,” said Jalili.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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