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UN chief: The ball is in Iran's court to solve nuclear stand-off
Feb 17, 2012, 9:06 GMT
Vienna - It is up to Iran to show that its nuclear programme is peaceful, as its leaders claim, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday in Vienna.
'To my mind, and to the mind of the IAEA, they have not been able to convince the international community,' he told reporters, adding that he was 'deeply concerned' about indications that the Islamic state was working to develop a nuclear weapon.
Ban said Tehran must implement the UN Security Council's five resolutions, which call for halting Iran's nuclear activities.
'The onus is on the Iranian side to convince the international community that their nuclear development programme is genuinely for peaceful purposes,' he said.
Iran proposed this week to revive nuclear talks with the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, but Western diplomats in Vienna said they wanted to make sure that any new talks would not end without results, as in previous rounds.
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