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RUSSIA URGES TO EASE SANCTIONS ON IRAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 2, 2011 - 13:34 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - World powers should offer to ease sanctions to
gain Iran's cooperation in resolving the dispute over the country's
nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"Talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the United
Nations Security Council plus Germany have stalled since January and
Russia believes incentives are needed to kick-start the process,"
Lavrov said in an interview in Moscow, Bloomberg reports.
"We have to show to Iran that if it cooperates, if it answers
satisfactorily the IAEA demands, then it should see the light at the
end of the tunnel," Lavrov said, referring to the International Atomic
Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog.
The Persian Gulf state in mid-2010 came under a fourth set of UN
sanctions, which Russia supported. The U.S. and European Union
later imposed tougher unilateral measures. "Russia won't support
new sanctions against Iran," Lavrov said. "It's a process that can
only be successful if we count not on new sanctions and threats,
but on negotiations."
"If Iran agrees to resume tougher IAEA inspections, the EU and U.S.
should pledge not to introduce any new, unilateral sanctions,"
Lavrov said.
"And then when Iran does something else, expanding access for the IAEA
to the places where the agency wants to go, then we suspend sanctions,"
he said.
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 2, 2011 - 13:34 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - World powers should offer to ease sanctions to
gain Iran's cooperation in resolving the dispute over the country's
nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"Talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the United
Nations Security Council plus Germany have stalled since January and
Russia believes incentives are needed to kick-start the process,"
Lavrov said in an interview in Moscow, Bloomberg reports.
"We have to show to Iran that if it cooperates, if it answers
satisfactorily the IAEA demands, then it should see the light at the
end of the tunnel," Lavrov said, referring to the International Atomic
Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog.
The Persian Gulf state in mid-2010 came under a fourth set of UN
sanctions, which Russia supported. The U.S. and European Union
later imposed tougher unilateral measures. "Russia won't support
new sanctions against Iran," Lavrov said. "It's a process that can
only be successful if we count not on new sanctions and threats,
but on negotiations."
"If Iran agrees to resume tougher IAEA inspections, the EU and U.S.
should pledge not to introduce any new, unilateral sanctions,"
Lavrov said.
"And then when Iran does something else, expanding access for the IAEA
to the places where the agency wants to go, then we suspend sanctions,"
he said.