New Proposal to Iran: Will It Be Enough to Defuse the Nuclear Crisis?
A report by British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
09 June 2006,
Ian Davis and Paul Ingram
This latest offer is a definite improvement on the E3 /EU offer made in August 2005, in that it is less demanding and gives clearer incentives. The fact that it appears to have the backing of the United States, Russia and China provides much needed additional authority and credibility. The softening of the US position in particular demonstrates recognition of the importance of the multilateral approach.
We argued previously that the earlier E3/EU proposal was vague on incentives and heavy on demands. If this proposal today had been offered a year ago (or better still two years ago) we could have probably avoided much of the damage to diplomatic relations between Iran and the West, and generated a greater degree of cooperation in resolving the mistrust and fear on both sides. �
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