Iran delivers proposals on global challenges
September 9th, 2009 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANSTehran, Sep 9 (DPA) Iran Wednesday delivered a new package of proposals to the six countries involved in nuclear talks with the Islamic state, ISNA news agency reported.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki handed the proposals to the diplomatic envoys of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Switzerland - the latter representing the diplomatic interests of the US in Tehran.
The package is said to contain Iran’s stance on tackling “global challenges” and how the Islamic state would be ready to cooperate with the West to secure global peace.
However, it is not expected to address the main Western demand that Iran suspend its controversial uranium enrichment, and unlikely to lead to any breakthrough in the nuclear dispute.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has several times stressed in the last three months that Iran would hold nuclear talks only with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The last meeting between Iran and the so-called 5+1 group was held in July 2008 in Geneva with the participation of US Under Secretary of State William Burns.
Meanwhile Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would defend to the end its internationally acknowledged legitimate rights and not make any compromise with world powers over its nuclear programmes.
“The Iranian nation has the spirit of resistance and sacrifice and can therefore not be intimidated,” Ahmadinejad said at a meeting with families of martyrs of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
“Resistance is the secret of the (1979) Islamic revolution and with increased popular support, we will enter the international scene with more decisiveness than before,” the president added.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili also insisted Wednesday that Iran would go on with its nuclear programmes regardless of what world powers say.
“We will not wait for others to give us permission to pursue our path of progress,” Jalili said referring to Western demands to suspend the atomic work.
“The era in which a few countries imposed their standpoints on others is over,” Jalili added.
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