France Thinks China And Russia Will Back Down, Support Sanctions
PARIS (AP) - Leading international powers may have an agreement within weeks on a third U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said after high-level talks in Paris on Saturday.
A compromise text on a new resolution would be circulated among the six countries involved in the talks—the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany—next week, the diplomat said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks.
“We could have a resolution in the short term,” the official said, adding he was ” very optimistic” it could be completed in the coming weeks.
The talks were held a day after the collapse of an 18-month European Union effort to persuade Iran to stop uranium enrichment, a process that can be used both for producing nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.
The French official called those talks “a disaster.”
On Friday, EU envoy Javier Solana held meetings with Saeed Jalili, Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator, in London. The meeting was seen as a last chance for Iran to give in to U.N. pressure and freeze its enrichment program before an EU report on Iran’s nuclear program that will be used in the discussion of new sanctions.
“Our objective remains the opening of negotiations” on Iran’s nuclear program, the French diplomat said. “But all the efforts to open negotiations are going nowhere.”
The United States, France and Britain are urging quick and tough new sanctions, but Russia and China appear to be skeptical.
Still, the French official insisted that there were no “deep differences” among the six countries at Saturday’s talks.
While Iran insists it has a right to peaceful use of uranium enrichment to generate power, Washington and others fear the activity could be misused to create the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
The U.N. Security Council imposed two previous sets of sanctions in December 2006 and March this year. The current set bans Iranian arms exports and freezes the assets of 28 people and groups involved in its nuclear and missile programs.
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Wilkerson, Colonel in retirement, former assistant to Colin Powell, said :
“Une frappe balistique américaine contre l’Iran serait un échec si les États-Unis ne sont pas prêts occuper ce pays pendant au moins dix ans, a indiqué le diplomate américain Lawrence Wilkerson dans un rapport présenté au Congrès américain.”
the article in french, some of you can read it, the others can take a translator
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:05 amYes, we should ignore Iran just like the French ignored Hitler.
I love how they ignore the fact that Iran is already attacking out troops. Their analysis of how it will go down, is well, quaint.
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:55 amGF
we didn’t ignore Hitler, at least De Gaulle, who tried to point on the importance to have a modern army with tanks, but failed because of an old-fashioned culture in the army heads, because of the horrorful WW1 : we had 1,5 million dead soldiers, that means, in a population of 40 million persons, each familiy had one or two dead or seriously wounded ; and WW2 started when the generation who was at WW1 was not over : 20 years separated the both wars.
We don’t ignore that Iran is attacking your troops.
The fact is that Iran does so because the Mullah want you to sit at a conference table and discuss with them upon Irak war and Iran place in ME as mediator.
They, anyway, prefer to deal with a western block ; they don’t trust Putin, but they are tied to him ; Putin knows it and blows the “hot” and the “cold” to keep them in his ranks
now, all the rest is powder in the eyes ;
they will make the auctions grow up till unless you give up.
Isn’t it what the Dems are preparing ?
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:37 amIf anyone would know the intimidate details about China and Russia, it would be France. The French have had a Ménage à trois going on for quite some time now.
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:20 pmeheh
Egfrow,
that’s the privilege of being a former “empire du milieu”
and anyway that is due to our geographical position : the middle !
funny how we are jaeloused for this position ; I can recall how many times our neighbours wanted to subjugate us ; even your Roosvelt wanted to make a protectorate upon us
but we are a country that can revendicate being inhabited since people lived in caverns, therefore the old world is “us”, therefore we keep in memory the tricks that other ethnies wrote in history
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:42 pmChina and Russia are the other anti-US clique. They have a vested interest in Iran. Those interests include the sales of advanced weaponry and nuclear technology. No doubt that oil and gas revenues alao factor into the deal somewhere.
However, the idea of screwing the US at every turn, is at the top of their agenda, so they will not support any sanctions unless the West can cut a better deal than the Iranians have already put on the table.
No chance that’s going to happen anytime soon.
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:35 pmIran as mediator in the ME … if Iran was just Iran, maybe. Under the Mullahs? Fuggedaboudit.
FranchFry;
December 5th, 2007 at 12:49 amMaybe you think “make the auctions grow up till unless you give up” means something in English. It does not, and your intention can’t even be guessed. Try again.
As far as having to occupy Iran for at least 10 years after a ballistic missile strike, there’s no need. Just turn it over to Muqtada el Sadr.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:59 am