Countries issue support to Iran on unconditional nuclear negotiations
Iran-Regional, Politics, 7/17/2006

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged today in a declaration signed by 56 foreign ministers of Islamic states to resume negotiations with Iran on the current nuclear dispute without any preconditions.

The declaration, signed by OIC members in Baku, said that the "only way to resolve Iran's nuclear issue is to resume negations without any preconditions and to enhance cooperation with the involvement of all relevant parties."

It was being delivered by a delegation from the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) led by Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn

"The demands of the leaders of the G8 nations represent neither the views of their populations nor the views of other world leaders.
They certainly do not represent the 56 nations that signed the Baku Declaration which we presented to Tony Blair today," he said.

The professor said that Iran was only exercising its "legal and inalienable right to pursue civilian nuclear technology."
There was "no evidence whatsoever that Iran has any nuclear weapons program," he said.

"The Americans are demanding that Iran concede the main point of the negotiations before they have even started. This was always going to be rejected by the Iranians and has provided a pretext for referral to the Security Council," he said.

Edalat said that the US Administration must "reconsider its confrontational approach and enter into direct negotiations without any preconditions while recognizing Iran's right for civilian nuclear technology including uranium enrichment."

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