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Iran's Proposal for "Constructive Negotiations"

Last week, Iran delivered a letter to UN officials accompanied by an offer for "constructive negotiations." According to nonproliferation expert Jacqueline Shire of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) who obtained the letter today, Iranian diplomats delivered the letter and offer to the UN director general and the UK Permanent Representative, and requested that it be shared with other UN Security Council permanent members and Germany. ISIS writes:

ISIS has obtained a copy of Iran's May 13 letter to the UN Secretary General and accompanying document titled "The Islamic Republic of Iran's Proposed Package for Constructive Negotiations."

The unofficial translation of the document, included below, numbers just over two pages and offers "wide-ranging and comprehensive negotiations" over three issue areas: political and security, economic and nuclear.

The nuclear section does not include an offer to suspend enrichment, but does highlight the possibility of "improved supervision by the IAEA" and the establishment of "enrichment and nuclear fuel production consortiums in different parts of the world, including Iran."

European Union foreign policy advisor Javier Solana is expected to travel to Tehran shortly to provide Iran with a set of enhanced incentives for suspending its uranium enrichment program. The EU's earlier offer, from June 2006, is contained in an appendix to UN Security Council Resolution 1747 (2007) and can be found here.

ISIS understands that Iran does not intend this document to constitute a rejection or pre-emption of the forthcoming proposal carried by Solana, but as the basis for continuing negotiations.

You can read the letter and proposed offer here (.pdf).

Comments

Wake up and smell the roses...???

Enquiring minds are discouraged from applying...???

"Ted Koppel reported: "It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush Sr., operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Iraq into an aggressive power. Reagan/Bush administrations permitted--and frequently encouraged--the flow of money, DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGY, chemicals and weapons to Iraq."

Ulitimately concluding (...) with our invasion--based upon the premise that Iraq possessed WMDs...

I remember reading somehwere that high-praise goes to the Shaw of Iran for building a nuclear reactor (... though the country is oil and natural gas rich)...

After NY City went broke, a while back, certain preeminent economists went to work ironing out the budget...

My point here is: The "end-product" of these economists should be "published" and distributed thoughout the world as a standard for city government...

...Just as the new generation of solar panels generate 33% more electricity, but remain unimplemented... (See Squeezing More Juice Out of Solar Panels)

On rainy days use Hydrogen made from solar electricity...

What's the reason for such a "laspe"?

...The same as why we have as many as twenty million illegal aliens..., but there is no penalty for the employer who hires them...

One has to be "very innocent" not to suspect that THE ESTABLISHEMNT has discovered the formula for creating over-population (and sociopaths...).

Doesn't take a weatherman to understand how a certain person lacks a sense of moral responsibility and a social conscience.

Just as it doesn't take a genius to understand that you don't drastically raise adjustable mortgage rates and drive yourself right out of business!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Michael L. Wagner on 05/20/08 at 1:42 PM Respond