CONSENSUS AND DISAGREEMENT IN IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROBLEM
CONSENSUS AND DISAGREEMENT IN IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROBLEM

Summary/Abstract: The United States and the allied European powers, together with Russia and China, consider that Iran should suspend the nuclear program and to come back to the table of negotiations. Despite Iran has stated its nuclear program is meant for peaceful purposes, Nicholas Burns, the US Deputy State Secretary re-asserted on the 18th of January 2006, in the first part of his Asian tour, the US request to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send the Iranian nuclear file to UN Security Council after the seal on the main Iranian nuclear centres has been removed. After the United States and European Union announced they will send the file to Security Council, Russia and China – countries with the status of a permanent member of the Security Council, having the right to vote – were against this decision. In their turn, the Iranians say sending the file to Security Council is not positive at all and will represent the end of the diplomatic relations; the Iranian Government will be obliged to suspend all “the voluntary measures, including the industrial enrichment”.

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