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| Rice warns Iran against stalling .. |
| Rice warns Iran against stalling N-offer
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 30-July-2008
8:18:12 AM |
| US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran not to delay a decision on an international offer of incentives on halting its sensitive nuclear work, ahead of a Saturday deadline.
"The Iranians should know that this is not going to be a matter that they can stall," Rice told reporters after talks with her Italian counterpart Franco Frattini at her office.
"The world is watching," she said on Tuesday.
Asked if there was no satisfactory response from Iran, Rice said, "We have been very clear that we have two tracks - if one track is not working, then we are going to have to go to the other."
She was referring to the offer of six-power talks with Iran weighed against the threat of increased international punitive sanctions against the country.
Already under three sets of UN Security Council sanctions, Iran has been given a two-week deadline expiring Saturday on a final answer to the offer by the permanent UN Security Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - plus Germany.
The offer includes trade incentives and help with a civilian nuclear programme in return for Iran suspending uranium enrichment, a process which could be used to make a nuclear bomb.
The offer was officially made earlier this month by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, the pointman for the world powers in talks with Iran.
"This is a very, very beneficial package for Iran. But Iran can't have it both ways," Rice said.
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