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Sat, 05/26/2012 - 07:46
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France says Iran must bring ‘constructive response’ to 5+1 proposals

BAGHDAD, May 26 (MNA) -- French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement, “Iran must bring a constructive response to our proposals in order to engage (in) a real negotiating process that will lead to concrete results,” the Kuwait News Agency reported on Friday. Part of the statement read, “Failing this, we will be forced to take new measures in the framework of the dual approach, which combines openness to dialogue and sanctions. “The members of the group presented their Iranian interlocutors with a package of concrete measures destined to establish confidence on the exclusively civil finality of the Iranian nuclear program.” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday that Iran should take “urgent” and “concrete” steps to help resolve the dispute over the country’s nuclear activities, according to the Kuwait News Agency. The British foreign minister warned that if Iran fails to respond in a serious manner, they should be in no doubt that the West will intensify the pressure from sanctions, including the embargo on oil imports already agreed, and will urge other nations to do the same. The European Union formally imposed an oil embargo on Iran and agreed to a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran on January 23, but existing contracts will be honored until July 1. “As we have confirmed at the conclusion of the talks in Baghdad today (Thursday), we remain fully committed to the diplomatic process underway and to finding a peaceful, negotiated solution to the nuclear issue,” he added.

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