Showdown Vote Likely on Iran Resolution
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China and Pakistan are among nations demanding the United States and its allies on the board of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency tone down a proposed resolution designed to ease Western fears about Iran's nuclear agenda.
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Key European nations circulated a draft U.N. Security Council resolution Thursday that would put the threat of sanctions, but not force, behind demands that Iran suspend uranium enrichment and clear up suspicions about its nuclear program.
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Six world powers will meet early next week in a bid to defuse the nuclear crisis with Iran, while the United States and its allies seek stiffer UN sanctions, US officials said Thursday.
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TEHERAN - Iran will probably give its formal response on Thursday to Britain, France and Germany on whether it will agree to a suspension of some of its nuclear activities in order to avoid possible UN sanctions, a top official told AFP.
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The United States narrowed differences with European allies Friday on how to pressure Iran to renounce the development of nuclear weapons, but it hasn&#39;t yet won agreement to haul the country before the UN Security Council, a US official
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Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on Iran over its nuclear program had largely met Moscow's concerns and could become the basis of a consensus decision.
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The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said. But a U.S. official said differences over the issue remain.
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"This will not bear fruit and will mostly work against them and we will continue our constructive cooperation with the (International Atomic Energy) agency"  The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said.The senior diplomat, who briefed reporters Monday on condition that he not be identified by name, said an agreement was very close and should be finalized by the six nation's foreign ministers at a meeting in Berlin, Germany.Analysts and the meeting's German host were more cautious about what the talks could produce. Momentum for a third resolution has slowed since a U.S. intelligence assessment last month indicated Tehran had stopped active work on a nuclear weapons program in 2003. Read more
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Major powers are expected to begin   discussing an Iran sanctions resolution at a meeting in Europe   next week if Tehran continues to defy a U.N. Security Council   demand to halt uranium enrichment, the U.S. State Department   said on Wednesday.
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Western powers are struggling to decide how to react to Iran&#39;s fledgling nuclear programme. Take a hard line, and the Iranian people may side with the hawks in their government, who want to develop nuclear weapons.
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Major powers will begin discussing   an Iran sanctions resolution at a meeting in Europe next week   if Tehran continues to defy a U.N. Security Council demand to   halt uranium enrichment, the U.S. State Department said on   Wednesday.
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Top diplomats from the world's major powers will try to reach agreement Saturday on new sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. A U.S. official predicted the session would lead to a "substantive resolution."
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The world's major powers will try on Tuesday to overcome differences over imposing more sanctions on Iran and to keep up pressure on the Tehran leadership to curb its nuclear program.
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The vote left in doubt the fate of a bipartisan resolution opposing President Bushâs troop buildup in Iraq.
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VIENNA : The United States and three major European nations have reached agreement in Vienna on a draft resolution on Iran&#39;s alleged nuclear weapons program in a breakthrough that could lead to the text being adopted Friday by the UN nuclear watchdog, a
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France, Britain and Germany are drafting a resolution on Iran for a key meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog next week and Washington is pushing the trio to include some tough language, diplomats said on Thursday.
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The UN Security Council is due to hold an informal ballot as it nears a decision on the next UN secretary general.