Havana, Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Year 14 / Number 167 Updated 12:05 p.m. local time Iran Considers UN resolution a strategic error Google translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Iran on Tuesday called the adoption of sanctions by the Security Council of the UN a strategic error, and said it would send letters to the membership of that body to protest its illegal stance. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, branded as illogical the resolution imposing a fourth round of punishment on the country, and charged that it was a U.S. ploy to distract attention from the Israeli attack on a pro-Palestinian humanitarian fleet, reports Prensa Latina . According Mehmanparast, the foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, send letters to all members of the Security Council to inform them of Iran's objection to its illegal approach in adopting the resolution and its position in the case. This policy of carrots and sticks is wrong and will not bear fruit, said the spokesman in his usual Tuesday press conference, an occasion in which he reiterated that negotiations on Iran's nuclear program would be possible only within a natural environment. Regarding the proposal by the foreign policy of the European Union (EU), Catherine Ashton, that Tehran resume dialogue on the nuclear issue, the diplomat Mehmanparast said that she [Ashton] had had a chance to do this for three months, but missed it. The spokesman was referring to the possibility of Ashton's talks with Iranian chief negotiator for the nuclear issue, Saeed Jalili, after she assuming office in Brussels, but he regretted that the EU bowed to pressure from Washington and she seems to have other priorities. While the official hinted that Tehran is considering the application (Ashton), he reaffirmed the Islamic Republic's determination to protect its right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. In this respect, he endorsed the words of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran will not tolerate any limits to its nuclear policy, but is open to the possibility of achieving an exchange of atomic fuel. Foreign Minister Mottaki criticized the Security Council yesterday for selective policies and ignoring Israel's crimes against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, while the parliamentarian Hossein Ebrahimi urged the restructuring of the UN body. To Ebrahimi, the dominant powers of the world use the Council to tyrannize oppressed peoples, as is in the hands of the United States and a handful of other powerful countries. http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2010/06/15/interna/artic15.html |
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Considera Irán error estratégico resolución de ONU La Habana, martes 15 de junio de 2010. Año 14 / Número 167
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