Emyr Parry Quotations

We're quite clear that's what we need to do if the African Union agrees, but the African Union must be brought to agree.

very actively on the management dossier and putting forward proposals and driving it.

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.

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.

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.

Nobody is going to be 100 percent satisfied with this text, but I think it is a basis for all of us to say our main interest is covered by it and that we recognize it reflects the best consensus we can come to now.

If that means that the AU decides that ... it wants to move this toward the UN, we are going to have to explore options like that.

is to show the intensity of the concern, and to make it very clear at the highest level what we expect.

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 are not there yet, but I am quite confident that we will be soon.

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 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 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.

Don't expect Rome to be built in a day, it wasn't, ... Against the difficulty of this negotiation, it's complexity, this is a very substantial gain.

The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be.

There's no text but we are talking about possible responses.

The role of the General Assembly in all of this is crucial,

It says governments should take every effort to stop people inciting anyone to commit terrorist acts. It's to discourage all those people who incite others to commit terrorist acts . . . in every way possible.

It's potentially a very serious situation. Some of the actions have aggravated that situation and we must do everything possible to minimize the risk of a re-emergence of conflict.

It's a new concept, it is to cap the expenditure within a year for a given an amount and to then say when you've run out of that money or are about to, come ask us for some more but then people can make a judgment.

at the request of and with the consent of a government.

I joined with the representative of a bigger country, the United States, in putting forward today four names representing a balanced package and it will be our intention to recommend to our colleagues that sanction measures should be taken against the four listed.

If there's no prospect for an agreed conclusion, we won't be amending the text.

If you can do one centrifuge, you can do 164. If you can do 164, you probably do many more. That means you have the potential to do full-scale enrichment. If you can do enrichment up to 7 percent, you can do 80 percent. If you can do 80 percent, you can produce a bomb.

And that is the dilemma the president of the General Assembly has, and we will give him whatever help we can as he decides now how to go forward.