START TALKS. Six-party talks with Iran under way in Geneva
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Russian and American officials are holding talks on the looming deadline of the START treaty in December. These talks are happening at the same time as a separate set of talks is taking place on Iran's uranium enrichment program at the International Atomic Energy Agency's headquarters in Vienna. Iran is said to be discussing a uranium export program that would give potentially 3/4 of their uranium to Russia and then France for enrichment and fabrication. This would insure that Iran's bomb-making capabilities would be difficult.
Geneva - The five permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany began their much-anticipated talks Thursday morning with Iran's nuclear negotiator - even as diplomats signaled low expectations.
'It's important to remember that the 'five plus one' group was formed to focus on the nuclear issue, and that remains our focus and our paramount concern,' a US official said ahead of the talks.
Along with Germany, the five nuclear powers - Washington, Britain, France, Russia and China - each sent representatives to a small secured villa just off Lake Geneva for the negotiations. Those talks aim to see if Tehran will agree to talk about its nuclear programme.
Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, was there to engage directly with Saeed Jalili, the Iranian negotiator, on behalf of the six parties.
If the morning meet goes well, a plenary session and informal one- on-one meetings could take place in the afternoon, officials have said.
Iran, though, while insisting its nuclear programme is peaceful, has not yet agreed to Western demands for unfettered access to its nuclear sites and more transparency.
Tehran says it is willing to discuss general issues, like non- proliferation, reform of the UN or peace, but was less inclined, leading up to the talks, to negotiate about its own programme, insisting on a 'right' to the technology.
For the Iranians, it is the West that must change its attitude, particularly since US President Barack Obama pledged a different approach than his predecessor.
The West was set to offer a 'freeze for freeze,' under which, if Iran stopped programmes that could allow for the creation of weapons, new sanctions and other moves against the Islamic republic could be put on hold. Also, the powers could provide guarantees for fuel if Iran stopped enrichment.
To remove the previous rounds of Security Council sanctions, Tehran would have to allow UN inspectors broader access to sites and be completely forthcoming about the existing projects.
'If they don't want to talk nuclear, there is no use for these talks,' said Mark Fitzpatrick, a scholar at the London security think tank IISS and a former high-ranking US State Department official.
The talks take place with both the United States and its ally Israel, which is also reported to have nuclear weapons, refusing to remove the chance of military action from the table. The two countries have insisted all options remain open.
A positive sign, diplomats say, would be if the negotiations extended into a second day, indicating the sides were talking with each other.
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