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Clinton: Powers agree on Iran resolution

While French president praises fuel swap deal between Iran, Brazil, and Turkey, US Secretary of State announces major world powers have agreed on draft of sanctions resolution, to be passed on to Security Council Tuesday

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday a nuclear fuel swap with Iran agreed in talks with Brazil and Turkey was a "positive step" and it was waiting for Tehran to provide full written details, while Hillary Clinton announced world powers had agreed on a sanctions resolution against the Islamic Republic.

 

"France will examine this with the Group of Six (international powers) and is ready to discuss without preconceptions all its implications for the whole of the Iran dossier," Sarkozy said in a statement during a visit to Spain.

 

Meanwhile, in something of a rebuff to the deal worked out between Iran, Brazil, and Turkey, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that world powers had agreed on a draft sanctions resolution against Iran and will circulate it to the full UN Security Council later in the day.

 

"We have reached agreement on a strong draft with the cooperation of Russia and China," Clinton told lawmakers. "We plan to circulate the draft resolution to the entire Security Council today."

 

Also in Madrid along with Sarkozy is Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who said Iran would be on its own if it does not fulfill the conditions of a fuel swap deal and deliver uranium to Turkey within one month.

 

Erdogan also urged the international community to support the fuel swap deal "for the benefit of world peace."

 

Western powers are convinced Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons and are negotiating imposing a fourth round of United Nations' sanctions on Tehran over the issue.

 

Iran, Brazil and Turkey signed a nuclear fuel swap agreement on Monday designed to allay concern over the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions and avert new sanctions.

 

Iran said it had agreed to transfer 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey within a month in return for higher-enriched nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor.

 


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