AFP, 07 July 2008 (excerpts) – EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday said he was not too optimistic about prospects for a breakthrough with Iran on its suspect nuclear programme, saying: “It’s difficult.”
Solana said he hoped to meet soon with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator after Tehran on Friday delivered its response to an international offer to halt uranium enrichment, which the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons.
“I hope that we will be able to continue the dialogue in the coming weeks…. We’ll see, but I don’t want to give the impression of being too optimistic,” Solana told reporters on the sidelines of an EU-NATO meeting in Paris.