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Rice: No to Iran nuke
30/01/2006 19:12 - (SA)
London - US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that the international community has agreed Iran should not have nuclear weapons.
"We have a lot of agreement among the international community. Iran shouldn't be able to get a nuclear weapon. "It must suspend its nuclear activities and go back to negotiations," Rice said at a news conference in London.
Rice was speaking several hours before she was due to join officials from the other four permanent members of the UN security council, and Germany, to discuss the possibility of referring Tehran to the security council.
The 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, was to meet on Thursday at its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, to discuss possible security council referral.
Rice said such a move would not end negotiations about Iran's nuclear programme, or change Tehran's options of reaching an agreement that would end the stand-off.
Earlier this month, Iran broke UN seals at a uranium enrichment plant and said it would resume nuclear fuel research after a two-year freeze. Tehran said the research would involve what it called limited uranium enrichment, but there are international concerns that Iran could use its nuclear programme to produce weapons.
Tehran says it only wants to generate nuclear power.
- AP
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