Six world powers will table on Wednesday a joint resolution on Iran over its nuclear program at a meeting of the UN atomic agency
Six world powers will table on Wednesday a joint resolution on Iran over its nuclear program at a meeting of the UN atomic agency, diplomats told AFP.
According to the alleged text seen by AFP, the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany will express their "serious concern" that Iran continues to defy multiple UN Security Council resolutions to suspend uranium enrichment.
It also "notes" that the International Atomic Energy Agency said in its latest report that Iranian activities at the Parchin military base would "significantly hamper" inspectors' ability to probe suspected nuclear weapons research.
The resolution likely to be voted on by the 35-nation board of governors of the IAEA on Thursday was hammered out over several days between Western capitals and Moscow and Beijing, seen as more lenient on Iran.
It stops short however of a referral of Iran to the UN Security Council, and the IAEA resolution is the 12th in nine years. But it is significant that Western nations were able to get Moscow and Beijing on board.