Diplomatic battle for new UN sanctions against Iran heating up
March 7, 2010 - 4:02pm
After a closed-door session of the United Nations Security Council on Sudan and Iran, the United States ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has denied reports that Washington had elaborated and circulated a draft resolution regarding new sanctions against Iran. "We are not at the present circulating a draft text of a resolution to Council colleagues here in New York," Rice said. Media reports said the sanctions package proposed by Washington would both broaden the scope and intensify three previous rounds of sanctions enacted since 2006 in an effort to persuade Iran to halt uranium enrichment and compromise over its nuclear program.
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