West Hopes N. Korean Nuclear Deal Will Spur Iran Talks

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US Secretray of State Rice answers questions from reporters 19 September 2005 at the United Nations in New York about the recent deal reached with North Korea on nuclear arms. North Korea promised to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for pledges of aid and security, the first major breakthrough in more than two years of deadlock over the high-stakes crisis. The unexpected agreement also said the United States would respect the North's sovereignty and would not attack, a fear Pyongyang had repeatedly said was a main reason for insisting on developing an atomic bomb programme. AFP photo by Don Emmert.

United Nations (AFP) Sep 19, 2005
The United States and its allies expressed hope Monday that a breakthrough agreement on North Korea's nuclear arms program could spur efforts to end a similar impasse with Iran.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart Jack Straw hailed the accord struck in Beijing under which Pyongyang agreed to renounce its nuclear weapons in return for pledges of aid and security.

"What that example shows is that isolation and defiance of the international community does not work, however fanciful individual nations may think that it can work," Straw said.

"However long it takes the will of the international community, the authority of international instruments these days, the smallness of the globe require that all member states stand by their obligations."

The chief British diplomat said the agreement reached after six-party talks in Beijing was a "good augury" for deliberations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran that opened Monday in Vienna.

Rice also saw a lesson for Iran in the North Korea accord, saying "there has been progress there I think people should take account of."

"The message is that the international community has a legitimate interest in the health and viability of the non-proliferation regime, and that there are multiple ways to deal with states about which there are questions," she said.

Rice and Straw spoke as Britain, Germany and France distributed a draft resolution in Vienna calling for Iran to be reported to the UN Security Council this week for resuming sensitive uranium conversion work.

US officials have signaled they may not have enough support at the IAEA for a quick referral but predicted they would get at least a strong criticism of Iran for walking out on negotiations with the EU-3.

"At some point in time Iran is going to be referred to the Security Council, particularly if Iran continues to demonstrate that it is not prepared to give the international community assurances it is not going to try to build a nuclear weapons program," Rice said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejad has said Tehran is not seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but the country claims an "inalienable right" to have access to fuel-cycle work.

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Islam Bars Iran From Having Nuclear Weapons: Iranian President

Washington (AFP) Sep 18, 2005
Islam bars Iran from having nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published on Sunday.

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