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Martin Conner
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 Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: China Opposed to Joint Statement on Iran |
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"VIENNA, Austria (AP) - China and Russia are holding back from a united message with Western powers to insist that Tehran halt uranium enrichment, a stance that could encourage Iranian defiance, diplomats said Monday.
Speaking outside a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board, the diplomats told The Associated Press that China was opposed to signing a joint statement and Russia was leaning against participating.
Their reluctance reflected the East-West divide among the six world powers that just two weeks ago appeared to be in agreement about how to engage Iran over enrichment and to persuade it to give up technology that could be used to make nuclear arms. Iran says its program has the sole purpose of generating electricity."
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060612/D8I6R9F80.html
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GEFBASS
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June 10th 2006
Found this in Washington Post:
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060604-103052-2402r.htm
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MOSCOW -- An obscure regional security group will consider admitting
Iran as a member at a summit this month, accelerating its transformation
into a political and military bloc with the potential to challenge U.S.
interests.
U.S. analysts think Russia and China already are using the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) -- which links the two with four Central
Asian neighbors -- to try to squeeze the United States out of the region.
SCO foreign ministers said at an earlier meeting that consideration
is being given to extending membership to four countries with observer
status -- Iran, Pakistan, India and Mongolia. Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is expected to attend the summit on June 15 in Shanghai.
Expansion of the organization into Iran and other countries could
make it "an enormous power," said David Wall, a professor at the
University of Cambridge's East Asia Institute.
"An expanded SCO would control a large part of the world's oil and
gas reserves and nuclear arsenal. It would essentially be an OPEC with
bombs," he said, referring to the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries........... |
Maybe this is why.
Geoff. |
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