Monday, April 9, 2007

Iran shuns meeting with US at Iraq conference

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman has said that Iran has no plans to meet with US officials on the sidelines of the forthcoming conference on Iraq.

Mohammad Ali Hosseini has told Iran's state news agency that talks with the US are not on the agenda.

Yesterday Iraq announced that ministers from Iraq's neighbouring countries, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and industrialised nations will hold a meeting in Egypt early next month to discuss the situation in Iraq.

The forthcoming Iraq conference, which was originally planned to take place in Turkey, follows a similar one held in Baghdad last month in which envoys from Iran and the US spoke directly to one another for the first time in years.

However, envoys from the two countries did not meet outside the group meeting, and each blamed the other for Iraq's security crisis.

The US has accused Iran of providing money and weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, while Iran has argued that the presence of US troops is destabilising the country.

US officials have not commented on potential contact with Iran at the forthcoming conference.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Never forget that Iran is not worst than many countries who do have the nuclear weapon. Israel is a criminal state, Pakistan is a dictatorial state, even in USA we are not sure who won in 2000.