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Iran terms EU nuclear proposal as "unacceptable"
www.chinaview.cn 2005-08-06 17:23:45

    TEHRAN, Aug. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran on Saturday termed as "unacceptable" a package of incentives offered by the European Unionon Iran's nuclear file, state radio reported.

    "The European proposal is unacceptable to Iran, for the proposal provides us no guarantees for our interests and are inconsistent to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Paris agreement,"Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted as saying.

    Asefi referred to an agreement reached by Tehran and the European trio of Britain, France and Germany in Paris last October.

    Under the agreement, Iran suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment one month later and opened way to negotiations with the EU.

    "The Europeans have not fulfilled their commitments," he said.

    Asefi added that Iran would provide its official reply to the proposal Saturday or Sunday.

    The proposal was delivered by ambassadors of Britain, France and Germany to Tehran. the EU trio has acted as the broker of Iran's nuclear issue for nearly two years.

    Soon after the delivery of the 34-page document, the EU and the United States urged Tehran to accept the proposal and retreat from its way to the threatened resumption of sensitive nuclear activities, saying a rejection will trigger the procedure to refer Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council.

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has also announced that its Board of Governors would hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday under a call of the European trio to discuss Iran's planned resumption of uranium conversion activities.

    Asefi rejected the meeting as illegal and criticized the EU fornot being committed to its promises. "Such kind of meeting does not have any legal bases. It is just aimed to exert political pressure on Iran," he said.

    "The Europeans have not fulfilled their commitments," he stressed, adding any proposal must recognize Iran's right to get peaceful nuclear technology, which has been accepted by the EU in the Paris agreement.

    In Friday's proposal, the EU reiterates that Iran must stop its activities related to uranium enrichment, although it acknowledges Iran has the right for peaceful nuclear usage secured by the NPT.

    Iran had threatened to resume its uranium conversion work, the preparatory step for enrichment, to press the EU to submit its proposal, which the European trio in late May promised to submit in two months.

    The United States has accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, a charge rejected by Tehran. Enditem

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