EU leaders urge Iran to take up incentives package early
EU leaders were to urge Iran today to give an “early positive response” to a package of perks and penalties offered by the five permanent United Nations security council members and Germany to resolve a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Leaders did not specify a deadline for Tehran’s response to the six-nation offer, but they urged Iran to take the “positive path” being offered, according to a draft document to be finalised today on the second and final day of an EU summit in Brussels.
The European leaders’ council “urges Iran to give an early positive response to this far-reaching initiative and to create the conditions whereby negotiations can resume”, the document said.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana presented the deal in Tehran on June 6 and had said he expected an Iranian response this week.
The six-nations agreed on the deal last month in Vienna.
The EU leaders said Solana’s Tehran talks had been conducted in a “constructive atmosphere”.
