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Christian Science MonitorIran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advised Western nations Thursday to create a “win-win” scenario for nuclear talks next month by choosing a “path of cooperation over confrontation.”
But Mr. Ahmadinejad also delivered a number of broadsides against the West during a regional economic summit in Istanbul, Turkey, where the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers are due by the end of January.
Co-opting the US tactic of casting the Islamic Republic as having a “clear choice” on its controversial nuclear program – to stop enriching uranium that might be used for weapons, or face unspecified “consequences” – Ahmadinejad said that world powers had “two choices.”
“One
is to follow the previous policies, and the results of that are clear,” said Ahmadinejad. “They used all their resources and they were defeated. They didn’t want us to become nuclear, and now we are. It’s an irreversible trend. To follow the path of confrontation will only have one result: failure.
“The second path is the path of cooperation,” Ahmadinejad said. “That is in the interest of all parties will be a win-win situation. There will not be failure or defeat for either party.” The January meeting could be “a landmark event, where we can replace confrontation with cooperation.”
Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1223/Iran-s-Ahmadinejad-urges-West-to-choose-path-of-cooperation
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