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09-22-2005, 05:06 PM
By Louis Charbonneau
VIENNA (*******) - The European Union's three main powers have dropped a demand that the U.N. nuclear watchdog report Iran to the Security Council over its atomic plans due to opposition from Russia and China, diplomats said on Thursday.
Moscow and Beijing have warned the United States, France, Britain and Germany against stepping up the nuclear standoff with Iran, undermining the Western drive to haul Tehran before the U.N.'s highest body for possible sanctions.
Earlier this week, the EU had circulated a U.S.-backed draft resolution calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing board to report Iran's secretive nuclear programme to the Security Council.
But with at least a dozen of the 35 members of the IAEA board opposed to the EU draft -- including China and Russia -- the EU has omitted the key demand from a revised draft.
Several diplomats from the European Union's "big three" -- France, Britain and Germany -- told ******* they had dropped the demand in the interest of getting a unanimous resolution approved by the IAEA board, which meets this week.
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http://today.*******.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-09-22T090736Z_01_HO229241_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml
VIENNA (*******) - The European Union's three main powers have dropped a demand that the U.N. nuclear watchdog report Iran to the Security Council over its atomic plans due to opposition from Russia and China, diplomats said on Thursday.
Moscow and Beijing have warned the United States, France, Britain and Germany against stepping up the nuclear standoff with Iran, undermining the Western drive to haul Tehran before the U.N.'s highest body for possible sanctions.
Earlier this week, the EU had circulated a U.S.-backed draft resolution calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing board to report Iran's secretive nuclear programme to the Security Council.
But with at least a dozen of the 35 members of the IAEA board opposed to the EU draft -- including China and Russia -- the EU has omitted the key demand from a revised draft.
Several diplomats from the European Union's "big three" -- France, Britain and Germany -- told ******* they had dropped the demand in the interest of getting a unanimous resolution approved by the IAEA board, which meets this week.
full article
http://today.*******.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-09-22T090736Z_01_HO229241_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml