29 Mar 2024
Monday 7 October 2013 - 14:19
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US calls on Iran to offer new nuclear proposals

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Iran to offer new proposals at the upcoming talks in Geneva to resolve the West's nuclear dispute with Tehran.
"The group of six put a proposal on the table at Almaty and I do not believe as of yet Iran has fully responded to that particular proposal. So, I think we are waiting for the fullness of the Iranian difference in their approach now," Kerry said on Monday following his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"So what we need are a set of proposals from Iran that will fully disclose how they will show the world that their program is peaceful," Kerry added.

This is while Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that the group of six major world powers should put forward new proposals for the Geneva talks.

We expressed our views during the New York meeting and we will continue to do so in Geneva, Zarif said, adding that the previous proposals offered by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany was now history.

The foreign ministers of Iran and the six countries held their latest round of negotiations at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 26.

The UN meeting was chaired by Catherine Ashton, who announced that the parties would meet again in Geneva on October 15-16 to discuss Irans nuclear energy program.

The United States, Israel, and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran rejects the allegation, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Kerry, however, said Washington was encouraged by the Iranian administrations new foreign diplomacy as demonstrated during a visit to New York by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in September to attend the 68th annual session of the UN General Assembly.
Saying that Washington was waiting for Iran to take actions to resolve the impasse, Kerry noted, And we have made clear that if there are those indicators, the United States and our allies are absolutely prepared to move at an appropriate pace to meet their actions. So we are still waiting to see where that comes out."

By Press TV

 

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