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Bush Will Not Meet With Ahmadinejad
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=13F91FF:A6F02AD83191E1603B9F47D7A485069E9574F7DCC14957C0 Mr. Bush says
Iranian president failed to meet UN demands to stop enriching uranium
President Bush says he will not meet with Iran's leader on the
sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week.  President
Bush wants sanctions against Iran, because it is refusing to heed
international demands to suspend uranium enrichment.







President Bush gestures as he speaks during a press conference in the
Rose Garden, Friday, September 15President Bush and Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will both be in New York for the U.N. session, but
Mr. Bush says he will not meet with his Iranian counterpart because
President Ahmadinejad has failed to meet U.N. demands to stop
enriching uranium.

"I have made it clear to the Iranian regime that we will sit down with
the Iranians once they verifiably suspend their enrichment program,
and I meant what I said," said Mr. Bush.

President Bush says Iran is secretly developing a nuclear weapons
program.







Mahmoud AhmadinejadPresident Ahmadinejad says Iran is pursuing nuclear
technology for the peaceful civilian purpose of generating
electricity.

Of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members, the United
States, Britain, and France, supported by Germany, back economic
sanctions against Iran for failing to meet an August 31 deadline to
suspend uranium enrichment. Russia and China have previously favored a
more cautious approach, saying sanctions could make the situation
worse.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana says negotiators
are, in his words, "really making progress" on resolving the standoff.
He told reporters in Brussels that, never before has there been what
he called this level of engagement with Iranian officials over this
issue.

French officials says Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani,
says his country is ready to discuss suspending its uranium enrichment
program.

President Bush believes Iran is trying to delay the process in hopes
of dividing those opposed to its nuclear program.


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