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Major powers look at new ways to coax Iran
Tue Apr 7, 2009 9:56pm EDT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior diplomats from six major powers meeting in London on Wednesday will discuss ways to entice Iran to give up sensitive nuclear work, a U.S. official and diplomats said on Tuesday.
Permanent U.N. Security Council members Britain, the United States, France, China, Russia as well as a senior official from Germany will mull a range of incentives to change Iran's behavior and get the Iranians back to talks, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We are trying to bring Iran back to the (negotiating) table," the U.S. official added. "It may be repackaging of old ideas but there are some ideas we may be able to present."
A Western diplomat, who also asked not to be named, said additional sanctions also would likely be discussed although Russia and China have balked at further punitive measures against Iran.
The London meeting follows President Barack Obama's talks with foreign leaders in Europe in which he shared early results from an ongoing U.S. policy review toward Iran.
Obama, said one diplomat, made clear he would break from the Bush administration's isolation policy of Iran and that Washington wanted a full role in any future negotiations by the six major powers with Tehran on its nuclear program.
The hope is that full U.S. participation in such talks would encourage Iran to take them more seriously.
In a rare departure last year, the Bush administration's point person on Iran -- William Burns -- sat in for the first time on a meeting with major powers to hear Iran's response to an incentives package offered to give up its enrichment.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Burns, who Obama retained as undersecretary of state, would be at Wednesday's meeting, but he declined to provide details of what the United States might suggest at those London talks.
"It's obviously to chart the way forward in terms of dealing with Iran's nuclear program," Wood said. "I don't want to get ahead of the actual meeting itself."
'FREEZE-FOR-FREEZE'
Last summer, major powers proposed a package of financial and diplomatic incentives to get Tehran to give up the uranium enrichment the West says is aimed at building a nuclear bomb.
Iran says its program is peaceful and intended to generate electricity.
A "freeze-for-freeze" idea was also offered -- Iran must freeze expansion of its nuclear program in return for the U.N. Security Council halting further sanctions measures. The United Nations has imposed three rounds of sanctions.
The freeze-for-freeze idea is expected to be discussed again at Wednesday's talks although Iran has said repeatedly it will not abandon its "right" to enrich uranium. Continued...
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