Posted on 09/18/2006 3:33:51 AM PDT by Nextrush
PARIS-French President Jacques Chirac suggested Monday that the international community renounce referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council during nuclear talks-and that Iran, in return, suspend uranium enrichment.
"I don't believe in a solution without dialogue," Chirac said on Europe-1 radio, suggesting that the international community suspend the threat of U.N. sanctions in exchange for Iran's suspension of enrichment during negotiations.
"I am not pessimistic," Chirac said. "I think that Iran is a great nation, an old culture, an old civilization, and that we can find solutions through dialogue."
He suggested that, firstly an agenda for talks be set forth by both sides, Iran and the six nations currently involved in the issue--France, Germany, Britain, Russia, China and the United States.
"We must, on the one hand, together, Iran and the six countries, meet and set an agenda, then start negotiations. Then during these negotiations, I suggest that the six renounce referring (Iran to) the U.N. Security Council and that Iran renounce uranium enrichment during negotiations," Chirac said.
The French president spoke before heading to New York for the U.N. General Assembly.........
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp ...
I totally agree. Further, this is not just an affliction of the French. It pervades academia. "We're more thoughtful and educated than those unenlightened people that just don't get it." They are lost in their own dogma.
I don't know if such a book exists or not, but it would be very interesting to see a compiled listing of all the positions vehemently held and defended by the 'enlightened' over the past 500 years, and compare those to what the historical realities turned out to be. Marxism is just one example.
Eurodif, which means European Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Consortium, is a subsidiary company of French company Cogéma which exploits a uranium enrichment plant established in the nuclear site of Tricastin in Pierrelatte in Drôme. The nuclear site of Pierrelatte includes many nuclear installations of which most imposing are the nuclear thermal power station of Tricastin and the Eurodif fuel factory.
Enriched uranium is the preferred fuel for pressurized water reactors, a common nuclear power technology.
In 1973 France, Belgium, Spain and Sweden formed the joint stock company EURODIF. Sweden withdrew from the project in 1974. In 1975 Sweden’s 10 per cent share in EURODIF went to Iran as a result of an arrangement between France and Iran. The French government subsidiary company Cogema and the Iranian Government established the Sofidif (Société franco–iranienne pour l’enrichissement de l’uranium par diffusion gazeuse) enterprise with 60 per cent and 40 per cent shares, respectively. In turn, Sofidif acquired a 25 per cent share in EURODIF, which gave Iran its 10 per cent share of EURODIF.
In 1974, the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi lent 1 billion dollars (and another 180 million dollars in 1977) for the construction of the factory, to have the right to buy 10% of the production. After the Islamic revolution of 1979, Iran's government suspended its payments and attempted to obtain a refund for the loan by pressuring France by handling terrorist groups. Finally an agreement was reached in 1991: France refunded more than 1,6 billion dollars. Iran remains a shareholder of Eurodif via Sofidif, a Franco-Iranian consortium shareholder which owns 25 % of Eurodif.
The factory, named after Georges Besse, provides forty producers of electricity in the world, including EDF, France's largest electric power company.
Naturally occurring Uranium, contains 0.7% of Uranium 235. Currently, it is enriched up to 5% by a gas diffusion process using uranium hexafluoride (UF6). However, France will abandon the gas diffusion process currently used by the Eurodif factory for a process by centrifugation. The project announced by Areva to make the change, was the subject of a public discussion in the Rhône-Alpes region from September 1 to October 22, 2004. The advantage of this new process is the lesser consumption of energy: Eurodif currently uses the power generated by all three of Tricastin's nuclear reactors, whereas the centrifuge-based plant could make similar amounts of uranium with only 50 MW.
The estimated schedule, which plans for the first output of the George Besse II plant at the end of 2007, seems to be facing some delay because of safety studies concerning the risk of seismic activity, criticality in the fuel enrichment process, and the risk of a plane-based terrorist attack; these were mandated by the nuclear safety authority.
Dismantling the original Eurodif facility is planned to be completed by the end of 2020.
What was that nation that gave Arafat's wife a home away from home all those years?
The United States should start bombing Iran's nuclear development sites now, and keep bombing them until they are pulverized. At the same time, we should bomb their oil pipelines, completely shutting down their oil export business.
Iran is a neo-Nazi state which sponsors terrorism. It must not be allowed to obtain or build nuclear weapons. The UN is a joke. Negotiating with Iran, Hezbollah, etc. is idiocy.
I don't believe there is a solution to deal with Iran that includes France. Jacques can "dialog" till he's blue....empty talk won't solve anything.
Wasn't there some Iranian 'deadline' that recently passed? What happended to that?
Maybe we need to set another deadline. or two. In the interim, I'm so glad that Kim il, Amanutjob, and Chavez are getting along swimmingly.
Fifty years from now the histor books will state:
"After the end of the Islamic/Western World War IV in 2014, the U.S. dissolved the United Nations from it shores. The UN fell into the proverbial 'dustbin' in similar fashion and rationale as the League of Nations. The U.S. state department, under the administration of President Coburn, concluded that muslim world had been responsible for over 20-40 million deaths, to which there had been no response by the world body. In a dramatic fashion, President Saddam Hussein, in his triumphant return in 2009 to the Iraqi presidency after the Sectarian Civil War of 2008, had attempted to have himself nominated as the new Secretary General of the UN. After repeated reports of Saddam walking out on his table at the local deli, American officials quietly began the seeds for the transfer of the UN charter to Uganda." ------ "Seeds in the Desert"-Henry Kissinger, Jr. 2056.
We're attacking him here, but he hasn't said anything wrong. If Iran suspends uranium enrichment during talks, that has the same result as a referral to the SC, imposition of sanctions, and them suspending uranium enrichment in order to get the sanctions removed.
In either case, suspension of enrichment is the goal and it would be achieved.
Chances are that A'Job will step in it, as a result of his rhetorical flourishes during his upcoming speech at the U.N.
We won't have long to wait.
Not to mention losing all of those billions of contracts France has with iran. They'd make the french economy tank right quick.
Are these the same negotiations that the Iranian "negotiator" was laughing at the "EU3" about not 6 months ago because they'd bought 2 years of time to advance their nuclear program?
He laughed at England, France and Germany on international television no less.
Fools never learn.
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That's goofy
The friend of my enemy is not my friend.
Or something like that.
Chirac has his head in a dark place.
Always remember to disinfect anything touched by scum...
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