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US to Iran: You have two weeks
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:52:13
 US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack |
Washington says Tehran has two weeks to decide between suspending its uranium enrichment program and facing 'further isolation'.
In a Saturday statement, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack
said time has come for Tehran to choose between confrontation and
meeting Western demands over its enrichment program.
"We hope the Iranian people understand that their leaders need to
make a choice between cooperation, which would bring benefits to all,
and confrontation, which can only lead to further isolation," said
McCormack.
The release of the statement followed nuclear talks in Geneva on a
package of incentives recently presented to Iran requiring the country
to suspend uranium enrichment in exchange for political and economic
benefits.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana had said earlier that Iran
did not give a 'clear answer' during the talks as to whether it would
accept the G5+1 package.
Solana termed his talks with Secretary of Iran's Supreme National
Security Council Saeed Jalili as constructive and hoped that both sides
would reach a consensus in the upcoming weeks.
Jalili, for his part, said that despite the common ground between
Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus
Germany (G5+1), some differences of opinion still remain that must be
further discussed.
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