Negotiations over Iran's enrichment program to continue

Paris (Platts)--27Jun2005

Iranians and Europeans will continue negotiating over uranium enrichment 
despite the election Sunday of an ultra-conservative, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as 
Iranian president, both sides said. Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling his
first press conference that talks with the "EU 3"--the U.K., France and
Germany--on Iran's contested uranium enrichment program would continue. Javier
Solana, the European Union's (EU) foreign policy representative, said the
governments would present new proposals to the Iranian government at the end
of July as planned. The two sides reached agreement with Iran's chief
negotiator Hassan Rohani in May on a suspension of the enrichment program, and
the Europeans have offered economic and political incentives if Tehran
terminates that program. But a European diplomat familiar with the talks told
Platts the Iranian negotiating team would likely have to be changed, because
Rohani and his colleagues were more "in phase" with the losing presidential
candidate, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

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