France confirms July 12 FMs meeting in Paris over Iran
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-08 08:57 PARIS, July 7 -- France
confirmed on Friday that a foreign ministers meeting of the U.N. Security
Council's five permanent members and Germany would be held on July 12 in Paris
over Iran's nuclear issue.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will also attend the meeting, French
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said.
He said the meeting "will allow the ministers to state their positions" over
the result of the process surrounding the proposals offered on June 6 to Iran in
exchange for it suspending uranium enrichment activities.
Solana, who met Iran's National Security Council Secretary Ali larijani in
Brussels on Thursday, said their meeting had been a "good start" and had been
held in a "positive and constructive atmosphere," according to the French
spokesman, although Tehran had failed to give a firm reply to the international
offer.
Solana and Larijani will come together again next Tuesday in Brussels, on the
eve of the Paris gathering, in an enlarged meeting with foreign ministers of
France, Germany, Britain and Russia, Mattei said.
The spokesman said he hoped Iran could bring an answer to the international
offer before the G8 (Group of eight most industrialized countries) summit,
slated for July 15 in St Petersburg, Russia.
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