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July 19, 2008

EU's Top Diplomat: No Answer from Iran on Incentives Package 
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Javier Solana held closed-door talks Saturday with Iran's top nuclear
negotiator, Saeed Jalili; talks attended for first time by senior US
envoy 
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana during press
conference in Geneva, 19 Jul 2008The European Union's top diplomat says
Iran has given no clear answers to an incentives package offered to
Tehran in exchange for suspending its nuclear program.EU foreign policy
chief Javier Solana says he hopes Iran will provide that answer soon. He
spoke at a joint news conference Saturday in Geneva with Iran's top
nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, who said Iran believes many of the
problems related to the Iranian nuclear dispute can be resolved.The two
made their remarks after holding closed-door talks that, for the first
time, were attended by a senior U.S. envoy, Undersecretary of State
William Burns. At the news conference, Jalili said a letter had been
delivered to the U.S. delegation citing "common grounds and
discrepancies." Until now, the Bush administration had insisted on
shunning any nuclear talks with Iran until it stops enriching
uranium.Iranian and EU negotiators !
 agreed to meet again in two weeks for another round of nuclear talks.As
the talks began, Iranian officials ruled out suspending Tehran's uranium
enrichment program - a key demand of Western powers.A member of the
Iranian delegation, Keyvan Imani, said the "freeze-freeze" approach -
where Iran would temporarily stop its enrichment work in exchange for no
new U.N. sanctions - is not on the agenda of the talks. The United
States and its Western allies have accused Iran of working to produce a
nuclear weapon. Iran says its atomic program is peaceful.

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