Moscow, NU Online
Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday criticised Western powers for trying to punish Iran in the U.N. Security Council draft resolution on the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme.
Sergei Lavrov, referring to the Europeans and the United States, said a proposed travel ban on Iranian officials “is in our view an attempt to bring an element of punishment and we agreed from the start not to do that.”
Earlier, at the United Nations, Britain and France, which drafted the text along with Germany, decided to distribute the measure to the council so the 15 members could prepare for a vote.
But no vote has been set yet because of differences with Russia and China.
The text allows for a lifting of all sanctions if Iran fully complies with all council resolutions and demands from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors.
It bans imports and exports of materials and technology relating to uranium enrichment, reprocessing and heavy-water reactors, as well as ballistic missile delivery systems.
To meet Russia’s objections, it excludes any mention of a light-water reactor Moscow is building at Bushehr in southwest Iran, Iran’s first nuclear power plant.
But Russia has continued to seek deletion of the travel ban on leading Iranian officials and firms associated with the nuclear programme. (reu/dar)
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