Across Asia: Iran

Iran agrees to Solana's trip

Iran said yesterday it had agreed to a visit by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to submit an upgraded package of incentives aimed at persuading the country into halting uranium enrichment, a news agency reported.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said no date had been yet been set for Solana's trip.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany offered a package to Iran in 2006 that also required Iran to halt enrichment.

Teheran rejected those proposals in 2006 and the latest package is an enhanced version of that earlier offer.

(China Daily 05/21/2008 page23)