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Mon, 11/08/2010 - 12:58
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Iran ready to hold talks with six powers in Turkey
TEHRAN, Nov. 8 (MNA)-- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced on Sunday that Iran has agreed to hold talks with 5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in Turkey.
“The agreement on the venue for the talks with 5+1 group is nearly finalized,” Mottaki told reporters in a joint press conference with Singaporean counterpart George Yeo in Tehran.
“We have informed our Turkish friends that we agree to hold talks in this country,” Mottaki explained.
The Singaporean foreign affairs minister also said the planned negotiations between Iran and the 5+1 group can produce positive results only if the other side recognizes Iran’s legal right to nuclear activities.
Iran and 5+1 group have expressed their readiness to resume talks in mid-November after a break of about one year.
Don’t take U.S. senator’s remarks ‘seriously’
In response to remarks by a U.S. senator who has called for a major attack on Iran, Mottaki said, “Don’t take his remarks seriously, he might have been joking.”
The minister suggested that such remarks are a result of confusion in the U.S. foreign policy as the country is entangled in a complicated situation. He added the recent congressional election in which Obama loyalists lost has added to the complication and put country in an “unstable” situation.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said that the U.S. should not be satisfied with stopping Iran’s nuclear program but should also destroy its military capabilities and deliver a major blow to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
“My view of military force would be not to just neutralize their nuclear program, which are probably dispersed and hardened, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard… in other words, neuter that regime,” Graham said on Saturday.
Asian union
On the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) conference in Tehran on Monday and Tuesday, Mottaki said he is hopeful the meeting can lay the groundwork for the establishment of an “Asian union”.
ACD members are trying to define an efficient mechanism to pave the way for the expansion of relations among the Asian nations and the main objective is the establishment of an Asian union, he said.
“The agreement on the venue for the talks with 5+1 group is nearly finalized,” Mottaki told reporters in a joint press conference with Singaporean counterpart George Yeo in Tehran.
“We have informed our Turkish friends that we agree to hold talks in this country,” Mottaki explained.
The Singaporean foreign affairs minister also said the planned negotiations between Iran and the 5+1 group can produce positive results only if the other side recognizes Iran’s legal right to nuclear activities.
Iran and 5+1 group have expressed their readiness to resume talks in mid-November after a break of about one year.
Don’t take U.S. senator’s remarks ‘seriously’
In response to remarks by a U.S. senator who has called for a major attack on Iran, Mottaki said, “Don’t take his remarks seriously, he might have been joking.”
The minister suggested that such remarks are a result of confusion in the U.S. foreign policy as the country is entangled in a complicated situation. He added the recent congressional election in which Obama loyalists lost has added to the complication and put country in an “unstable” situation.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said that the U.S. should not be satisfied with stopping Iran’s nuclear program but should also destroy its military capabilities and deliver a major blow to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
“My view of military force would be not to just neutralize their nuclear program, which are probably dispersed and hardened, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard… in other words, neuter that regime,” Graham said on Saturday.
Asian union
On the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) conference in Tehran on Monday and Tuesday, Mottaki said he is hopeful the meeting can lay the groundwork for the establishment of an “Asian union”.
ACD members are trying to define an efficient mechanism to pave the way for the expansion of relations among the Asian nations and the main objective is the establishment of an Asian union, he said.
