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Iran's talks with world powers to start next month
Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:06am EDT
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and world powers seeking to resolve a dispute over Tehran's nuclear program will start talks on October 1, in what a senior U.S. official described as an "important first step."
In Vienna, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog urged the U.N. Security Council to give it more powers to prevent the spread of atom bomb technology and avoid relying on sanctions he said often did not work.
Mohamed ElBaradei's call was a clear reference to the case of Iran, which is expanding a declared uranium enrichment program without clarifying allegations of illicit nuclear weapons research.
But the chief U.S. delegate, in contrast with ElBaradei's message, said any nuclear outlaws must face "serious consequences" at the Security Council, an apparent allusion to sanctions.
"Failure to impose meaningful consequences puts at risk everything we have achieved (with non-proliferation rules). We cannot let this happen," said U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said on Monday the time had come for tougher sanctions against Iran.
"I believe that now is the time to start harsh sanctions against Iran -- if not now then when? These harsh sanctions can be effective," Netanyahu was quoted by a parliamentary official as telling a legislative committee.
"I believe that the international community can act effectively," said Netanyahu, whose country is widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power.
His comments appeared to signal -- amid wide speculation that Israel could opt to attack Iranian nuclear facilities -- that it had not given up on international diplomacy to curb Tehran's atomic ambitions.
In Brussels, a spokeswoman for European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana confirmed he had talked to Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on the phone and that they had agreed on a meeting on October 1.
Solana has been representing the six powers -- the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia -- in long-running efforts to defuse the row over Iranian atomic activity which the West suspects is aimed at making bombs.
"It's an important first step and we are hoping for the best," U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said in Vienna about the talks announced for early October.
Media in Iran, which says its nuclear program is for peaceful power purposes, said the venue had yet to be decided.
"In talks between Saeed Jalili and Javier Solana, October 1 was announced as the starting date of Iran's talks with the 5+1 countries," the semi-official Mehr News Agency said, referring to the group of six powers.
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