Iran's
Khazayee Tells
ICP Exclusion
on Syria is
"Power's
Problem,"
Talks Nuclear
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 27 --
After Kofi
Annan excluded
Iran from his
June 30
meeting in
Geneva, Security
Council
sources
exclusively
told Inner
City Press
that US
Secretary of
State Hillary
Clinton had
threatened
not to attend
if Iran did.
Inner City
Press wrote
that story,
then
managed to ask
Iran's
Ambassador to
the UN
Mohammad
Khazayee to
respond to it.
Khazayee
told
Inner City
Press, "a very
important fact
that cannot be
ignored
by anybody is
the influence
and
constructive
role that the
Islamic
Republic of
Iran has in
the region...
if some powers
do not want to
benefit from
this influence
and
constructive
role, that's
their
problem. And
this is
another
indication of
the actually
neglecting
the realities
on the
ground."
He
added that the
"solution for
Syrian crisis
is the
cooperation
among
everybody,
especially the
major players
in the
region."
The
spokesman for
Ban Ki-moon,
who had been
on record that
Iran should
participate,
said at the
June 27 noon
briefing that
Kofi Annan
would, after
the
June 30
meeting, give
a briefing to
Iran. Inner
City Press
asked him
if Saudi
Arabia, also
not invited,
would get a
similar
briefing.
Later
on June 27
the following
came in:
From:
UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Wed, Jun
27, 2012
at 2:54 PM
Subject: Your
question on
Saudi Arabia
To: Matthew
Russell Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
The
Spokesperson
understands
that the Joint
Special Envoy
will also
brief
Saudi Arabia
after the
Action Group
meeting and
ensure their
continued
engagement.
So
the exclusions
are, it seems,
simply in
order to get
Hillary
Clinton to the
meeting,
as one Council
member put it,
so that no TV
footage of her
with Iran
about Syria
comes out in
this election
season.
Inner
City Press
also asked
Iran's
Ambassador
about the
nuclear talks,
how he would
characterize
their status
and relations
with the P5+1
(or E3+3) and
Iran.
Khazayee:
I
am planning to
have a
briefing to
all of you in
the next few
days
about the
negotiations
in Moscow and
about what
happened over
there
and the
details of the
proposals that
was made and
put forward by
the
Islamic
Republic of
Iran, as well
as 5+1, but in
general I have
to
say that the
negotiations,
the Iranian
side are
serious and
they have
genuine
proposals to
overcome these
misunderstandings
and suspicions
that exist,
and there are
some points
that exist in
our proposal
as
well as the
5+1 proposal,
which is the
question of
20% enrichment
of
uranium and
also dealing
with the
stockpile, the
TRR's
provision of
needed
enriched
uranium for
TRR. So on
these issues,
I think that
both sides can
come to an
agreement if
they discuss
fairly and
they
also take into
account the
Iranian views
and their
needs and
considerations
and also the
issue of their
rightful
enrichment and
other things
and I don't
want to
discuss it
right now. So
I
characterize
the
negotiations
in Moscow as a
serious one
and the good
result of it
is that
finally both
sides decided
to get into
details
and technical
issues,
because
without that
of course you
cannot solve
all these
technicalities
and details.
There
is more to
say, but
that's it for
now. Watch
this site.
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