US Achieves Significant Diplomacy Success in Iran Nuclear Issue

The Obama Administration has made significant progress through its diplomacy efforts to pressurise Iran to open up its new nuclear plant to international inspectors and to prove that building nuclear bombs are not part of its nuclear ambitions.

A Separate and very rare one-on-one meeting between US Under Secretary of State and Chief Negotiator William Burns and Iran´s Chief Nuclear Negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has taken place. The talks are expected to have yielded good progress in the US´ efforts to use diplomacy to resolve issues at hand and avoid any potential confrontation with Iran.

Russia and China are also key players and are watching events closely. Russia is reported to have indicated its displeasure, fairly recently, with the Iranian Government on Iran´s nuclear ambitions. Further pressure was placed on Iran following the discovery of Iran´s new nuclear facility.

The P5 plus 1 group, led by the U.S. and five other world powers, China, Russia, France, Germany and the UK are demanding a freeze of Iran´s nuclear activities. Its diplomats and representatives attended the opening of the Geneva nuclear talks on Iran´s atomic programme in Geneva, Thursday, 1st October 2009. Iran is expected to open its new nuclear facility to international inspectors as well as prove to the inspectors that its nuclear ambitions are only for energy production and not for the building of a nuclear bomb.

[Photo courtesy of EPA/Dominic Favre].
European Union foreign policy Chief Javier Solana, was present at the meeting.
 
Chris K Dankwa 
[Published 1 October 09 for DiplomacyWatch.Com ]
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