WORLD / Iran Nuke Issue
Russia's proposals on Iran gut Euro text
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-11-08 14:59
The European draft, supported in general by Washington, also bans travel
and freezes assets of people and entities involved in the nuclear and
ballistic missile programs.
Russia's amendments delete the travel ban, the freezing of financial
assets and any mention of the Bushehr nuclear power plant Moscow is
building for Iran. Churkin maintains Bushehr is not a threat to nuclear
proliferation.
The European resolution exempts from sanctions construction but not the
delivery of fuel to Bushehr, which costs about $800 million and is
expected to go into operation next year.
Russia also wants any sanctions to expire in three months, unless the
council adopts another resolution to extend them.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, who has submitted some of his own proposals,
accused Russia of backing away from earlier commitments by its foreign
minister, Sergei Lavrov, in framing the international response to Iran's
nuclear program.
Bolton said changes sought by Moscow conflicted with commitments by
Lavrov earlier in the year.
"We don't think the Russian text is consistent with what foreign
ministers had agreed previously," Bolton told reporters.
Churkin said Moscow's proposals were "fully in conformity with the
understandings by the ministers."
At meetings in Europe in recent months, foreign ministers from the
Security Council's permanent members - Britain, France, Russia, China and
the United States - plus Germany agreed to take action against Tehran.
Washington has insisted the foreign ministers agreed to impose tough
sanctions on Tehran.
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