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Rice determined not to give ground over incentives to Iran
AFP
Published: Thursday May 1, 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she was
determined not to give ground over a package of "incentives" that
the West has offered up to convince Iran to give up its nuclear
programme.
The top US diplomat, who arrived in London for talks on Friday on
Iran, the Middle East peace process and Kosovo, insisted on the need
to "fully" implement United Nations sanctions levied on Tehran.
"We will take a look again at what we have offered the Iranians,"
she told journalists on the plane en route to Britain.
"But I just want to say I don't see any evidence that the Iranians
appear to be interested in that track," she said, adding that she
did not expect any notable results from Friday's meeting.
Rice will join with her counterparts from Britain, Germany, France,
Russia and China in the talks on Iran, in which the West has adopted
a carrot-and-stick approach to discussions with the Islamic Republic
over its controversial nuclear programme.
They have offered technical, political and economic rewards to
Tehran for suspending its nuclear programme, which the West says is
for military purposes despite Iran's vehement denials.
But those offers have never been made public and official documents
obtained by the media suggest the offer was vague. Several
countries, including Russia, say those proposals should be
developed.
At the same time, the UN Security Council has adopted three
resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran for its refusal to suspend
its uranium enrichment activities.
Rice has not been keen on offering new incentives to Tehran,
describing the offer already made as "very generous".
"If there are things that can be done to improve the chances that
the Iranians will do what they should have done and ought to do,
fine," she said. "Let's look at it."
"I don't think the problem is the package. I think the problem is
Iranian will."
She added: "I also believe that we have got to intensify our efforts
on the UN Security Council ... I believe that there is plenty in the
Security Council resolutions that if fully implemented, fully
executed, fully used, will increase the pressure on Iran."
Rice insisted she was not "accusing anyone of bad faith", but was
instead arguing for the proper application of the sanctions.
