Iran must prove not seeking nuclear weapons – British Premier
Published: Sunday, June 29, 2008
21:17GMT—5:17PM/EST
UK – US – IRAN – CHINA
Washington, 29 June (IranVNC)—Iran must prove to the international community that it does not intend to develop nuclear weapons, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a televised interview today.
Speaking in an interview on the Atlanta-based CNN, Brown said that Iran had “not been totally honest” with the international community with regards to its disputed nuclear program.
“We need a firm and absolute commitment that Iran is not going to break from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and have nuclear weapons. That is the first stage,” he said.
Britain, along with the U.S., Russia, Germany, France and China, earlier this month presented the Islamic Republic with a package of economic and political incentives aimed at persuading that country to give up its uranium enrichment activities.
For her part, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking today alongside Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jeichi in Beijing urged Iran to suspend its enrichment activities in exchange for the incentives package.
She said that she and her Chinese counterpart had an “extensive discussion” and added that they were “hopeful” Iran would suspend it enrichment and accept the “set of proposals that would really help Iran to integrate into the international community.”
Sources: CNN, State Department website
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