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Unity Is UN Message To Iran In Nuclear Row

BERLIN, March 30, 2006 -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says the permanent members of the UN Security Council agree that Iran must heed a UN demand to halt uranium enrichment.

Steinmeier was speaking in Berlin after a meeting of foreign ministers from the "Big Five" -- Britain, France, China, Russia, and the United States -- plus Germany.

He said the message from today's meeting is that the international community is united in its demand for greater clarity in Iran's nuclear program.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Iran had "miscalculated" the international community's response to its decision to resume uranium enrichment. He said Iran had wrongly believed the world would be divided.

The comments follow the issuing of a Security Council statement on March 29 giving Iran 30 days to suspend its fuel-enrichment activities.

In Vienna, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA said Iran will not suspend uranium-enrichment work. Aliasghar Soltaniyeh said the decision to resume enrichment is "irreversible."

(AFP, Reuters)

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