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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/international/europe/19POWE.html
Europe to Oppose U.S. Effort to Air Iran Arms Issue in UN
(New York Times) - Europe will resist an American effort to bring the suspected Iranian development of nuclear weapons before the UN Security Council, hoping to lure Iran into compliance with negotiations and incentives, European officials said Tuesday. The stand was a rebuff to Secretary of State Powell, who met in Brussels with European foreign ministers and sought a forceful response to a UN report that Powell said had proved that Iran was defying its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.