Emyr Parry
Emyr Parry
Sir Emyr Jones Parry GCMG FInstPis a retired British diplomat. He is a former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and former UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council...
basis best consensus covered interest main nobody percent recognize reflects satisfied
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.
continued deal
We don't have a deal but we continued our discussions, we will continue them and we edged forward... but it's edging forward.
decides explore means move options toward wants
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.
confident quite
We are not there yet, but I am quite confident that we will be soon.
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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.
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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.
clear highest intensity level
is to show the intensity of the concern, and to make it very clear at the highest level what we expect.
close colleagues response today
The response we got from our colleagues today suggests that we are pretty close to where they wanted us to be.
possible talking text
There's no text but we are talking about possible responses.
against built difficulty expect rome
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.
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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.
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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.
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very actively on the management dossier and putting forward proposals and driving it.
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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.