Security Council mulls new draft against Iran
September 27, 2008 UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Saturday weighed a revised draft resolution containing no new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear defiance and merely reaffirming existing ones.
At the request of Indonesia, the text, agreed by foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the Security Council â€" Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States â€" plus Germany Friday, was slightly amended to welcome “continuing efforts to resolve this matter through negotiation.”
The draft would also call on Iran “to fully comply and without delay with its obligations (under relevant UN resolutions) and to meet the requirement of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board of governors.”
Indonesian Ambassador Marty Natalegawa, who abstained when the last Iran sanctions resolution was adopted last March, told reporters that he would ask the sponsors why this new text was necessary.
After closed-door consultations on the issue, he offered an amendment to the draft that “reaffirms the commitment of the dual-track approach and to an early-negotiated solution to the Iran nuclear issue.”
It was unclear whether the 15-member council would vote upon the revised text later in the day or next week as earlier announced.
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