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5+1 favors diplomacy over Iran΄s N-issue

5+1 favors diplomacy over Iran΄s N-issue
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Source: Press TV, 10-12-2008
EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana says the 5+1 group policies towards Iran's nuclear program are based on diplomatic and peaceful solutions.
The policies that the 5+1 group is implementing towards Iran's nuclear program are in line with the policies of the international community and are based on diplomatic and peaceful solutions, he told IRIB on Tuesday.
The Western states expect Iran to offer them necessary guarantees for its enrichment activities and we believe we can get these guarantees through diplomacy and negotiations, Solana added.
Earlier on Friday, Solana stressed the win-win negotiations as the only solution to Iran's nuclear standoff.
Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) rejects the allegations leveled by the West against its nuclear activities. It has repeatedly declared that the production of nuclear weapons has no place in the Islamic Republic's doctrine. The recent IAEA report on Iran's nuclear activities has proved no diversion of declared nuclear material, but has urged Iran to promote its cooperation with the UN Nuclear Watchdog over the alleged 'study of weaponization' attributed to Tehran by Western states.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was scheduled to meet the 27-member European bloc on Tuesday to discuss the country' nuclear issue, but his trip was cancelled.
"Unfortunately Mr. Jalili did not attend the Tuesday meeting in Brussels, but I will try to plan another meeting with him by the year end or the beginning of 2009," he noted.
"The Iranian officials can mull over the package of incentive I offered them in my last visit and I think that's a good proposal. We expect Tehran to give an appropriate response to the package," Solana said.
The six major powers - the US, Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany - have offered Iran an incentives package in a July meeting in return for a freeze in uranium enrichment activities. They gave Tehran two weeks from July 19 to respond to their offer to hold off from imposing more United Nations sanctions on Iran, if it froze any expansion of its nuclear work.
The US pressures on the UN Security Council has drawn three rounds of United Nations sanctions against Iran since 2006.