Iran to offer package of solutions to 5+1

April 14, 2008 - 0:0

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki on Sunday said Iran plans to offer a package of solutions on international problems to the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (the so-called 5+1 group) which are scheduled to meet on April 16 in Shanghai to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.

“In view of serious problems and crises the international community is facing, the Islamic Republic is trying to prepare a package to offer to different groups and sides,” Mottaki told reporters in a news conference with Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto Romulo.
“This package is being drawn up based on a new approach and I think it will be useful for different sides including the 5+1 group,” Mottaki declared.
Asked about the Wednesday meeting of the 5+1 group in China, Mottaki said, “We wish success to all regional and international meetings and we hope they will be held based on justice and logic.”
Kuwait talks on Iraq should yield considerable results
Mottaki said an April 22 meeting of Iraq's neighbors which is scheduled to discuss ways to resolve Iraq's security crisis should achieve appropriate decisions to considerably reform the Arab country’s troubled situation.
Permanent members of the UN Security Council are also expected to attend the ministerial-level meeting in Kuwait.
He said maintaining security in Iraq requires the withdrawal of foreign troops as the root cause of insecurity in the war-ravaged country.
Mottaki also ruled out holding talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the sidelines of the Kuwait meeting