EU’s Solana regrets Iran uranium enrichment plans
Updated: Monday, November 30, 2009
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Javier Solana
15:52GMT—10:52AM/EST
Washington, 30 November (WashingtonTV)—European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, on Monday criticized Iran’s “wrong decision” to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, in defiance of international demands to suspend its enrichment work.
“I think this is the wrong decision,” Solana told reporters in Brussels, according to AFP.
“I lament that they have taken this decision,” he added.
Solana, who has led nuclear negotiations with Iran on behalf of major powers, said he hoped Iran would change its mind on expanding its uranium enrichment program.
Iran’s announcement on Sunday came two days after the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog rebuked it for building a second uranium enrichment plant in secret.
Western powers have criticized the Iranian announcement, and have warned Tehran that its continued international defiance could lead to the imposition of further sanctions.
Iran is already under three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for defying demands to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Source: Agence France-Presse
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