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| Rice to urge Russia for Iran ... |
| Armed with support from NATO allies, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to convince a skeptical Russia that it should back US plans
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 7-December-2007
9:30:13 AM |
| Armed with support from NATO allies, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to convince a skeptical Russia that it should back US plans to step up pressure on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities.
Having won NATO endorsement to stay the course despite a new US intelligence assessment that concludes Iran stopped its atomic weapons development program in 2003, Rice was to meet on Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who has become the public face of opposition to new UN sanctions.
On the sidelines of a NATO meeting already beset by alliance differences with Russia over US plans for European missile defense and troop deployments in Europe, Rice and Lavrov were to discuss Washington's surprising revision of its view of Iran's nuclear work.
The National Intelligence Estimate, released on Monday, credited intense diplomatic activity for Iran's decision on weapons.
''The point that I'm emphasizing to people is that it was international pressure that got the Iranians to halt their program,'' Rice said.
''This suggests that you ought to keep up that international pressure,'' she told reporters on her way to Belgium for her first face-to-face talks on the matter with foreign officials since the intelligence report became public.
NATO members agreed.
''We take the opportunity of our meeting today to again urge Iran to comply'' with existing UN Security Council sanctions resolutions that demand its compliance on the nuclear issue, alliance foreign ministers said.
''There was unanimity around the table that there is a clear choice for Iran,'' British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told reporters, noting offers of nuclear cooperation with Iran if it stops enriching and reprocessing uranium.
''Iran can see the outstretched hand from the international community if they are willing to join the drive against proliferation,'' he said. ''But if Iran persists on defying the will of the United Nations Security Council
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