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Bush, Putin Urge Iran to Respond to Incentives
U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday encouraged Iran to quickly provide a response to nuclear incentives from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany, Reuters reported (see GSN, July 17). “We are especially concerned by the failure of the Iranian government to engage seriously on the proposals,” Bush and Putin said in a statement (Reuters/Yahoo!News, July 17). Putin, however, added that any discussion of sanctions against Tehran was premature, Agence France-Presse reported. “We would like Iran to respond as quickly as possible to the offer from the six and for negotiations to get started on the basis of this proposal,” he said. “Talk of sanctions would create unfavorable conditions for negotiations,” Putin added (Agence France-Presse I/Yahoo!News, July 17). Continued clashes in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah have led the U.N. Security Council to postpone debate on a resolution addressing Iran’s nuclear program, AFP reported yesterday. “I would have expected that as of this morning, we would have been working on the Iran resolution, but Iran’s proxies in the Middle East, Hamas and Hezbollah, obviously have other work in mind,” said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (Agence France-Presse II/Khaleej Times, July 17).
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