The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be. |
The role of the General Assembly in all of this is crucial, |
There are some points not in the text that frankly we would have preferred to have seen in the text. Other colleagues said no, that would send a different message at this particular time. |
There's no text but we are talking about possible responses. |
very actively on the management dossier and putting forward proposals and driving it. |
We are discussing the best means by which we can apply pressure to encourage Iran to meet what the board has asked and demonstrate our support for the board. |
We are not in favor of holding any individual items or the budget hostage to other issues but we do say very clearly that by the end of this year we need clarity and a determination to tackle a better management for the United Nations, |
We are not there yet, but I am quite confident that we will be soon. |
We don't have a deal but we continued our discussions, we will continue them and we edged forward... but it's edging forward. |
We had a very good meeting. We discussed the elements that France and the UK put down. These are now being referred to capitals and I expect we will have an early meeting later this week to see what the reactions are with a view to making progress on the text. |
We have a very serious situation with Iran. This is not a dispute between the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany) and Iran. It is the interest of the international community as a whole. |
We want to send a message to Iran to support what the (IAEA) governing board has asked it. |
We would like to see the AU take a decision imminently to actually say we carried the burden, we carried it with dignity and that at this stage the best plan would be for the United Nations to take over that operation. |
We're headed toward an outcome, |
We're looking now at a mix of different comments on basic texts. We've made a bit of progress but we have quite a lot more progress to make. |