Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 15

13-Apr-2009

IRAN

Iran Nuclear Talks Proposed, Ahmadinejad Backs Kazakh Uranium Bank Proposal

The Iranian nuclear issue moved up the international agenda again on 8 April when the US, Russia, China, France, Germany and UK invited Iran to talks following a major reversal of US policy. The governments issued a statement saying that they would ask EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to invite Tehran to a meeting to find a diplomatic solution to this critical...