The Associated Press reported on Thursday, Jan. 17, that Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, who was to raise the issue of new sanctions Thursday in Beijing with Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, said the intelligence estimate showed only that Iran has suspended work on warhead design but was pressing ahead on uranium enrichment and missile development.

“Work continues by Iran on two out of those three parts of that program,” Negroponte told reporters in Beijing before departing for the talks. “So we think it’s important that there be an additional Security Council resolution because Iran is out of compliance on previously passed resolutions,” he said.

The meeting will be the first of its kind in four months, since the ministers last met in late September in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, and will be the first since the release of a U.S. intelligence report in December.