GENEVA -1 hour, 14 minutes ago
A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
In response, the six gave Iran two weeks to respond to their demand, setting the stage for a new round of U.N. sanctions.
Officials and diplomats refused to characterize the timeframe as an ultimatum, but it appeared clear that Iran now has a de-facto deadline to show flexibility.
In diplomatic terms, "further isolation" is shorthand for economic and political sanctions.
U ponedeljak opet gledajte cijenu nafte
zimbabve izgleda prvi izlazi iz financijske krize……………vjerovatno zato što je tamo febo ministar financija [bye]
Ahmadinejad Says Iran Nuclear Talks Were a `Step Forward’
By Ladane Nasseri
July 20 (Bloomberg) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the latest round of international talks was a “step forward” in resolving the conflict concerning his country’s nuclear program.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said yesterday after a four-hour meeting in Geneva with Iran’s top nuclear official, Saeed Jalili, that Iran needs to give a clear answer within weeks to an offer of economic and diplomatic incentives in return for a suspension of its nuclear work. The package was proposed by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.
“Every session that takes place is a step forward,” Ahmadinejad said, the official Fars news agency reported today.
Solana said after the talks that negotiators “did not get what we were looking for.” Asked what would happen if Iran doesn’t reply to the six-nation proposal within two weeks, Solana declined to comment. The UN has passed three sets of sanctions because of Iran’s refusal to halt its atomic work.
U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns represented his nation at the talks, making them the highest-level encounter between American and Iranian officials since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The U.S. in the past has boycotted the nuclear talks saying that Iran must first end enrichment.
“The U.S. is also part of the 5+1 nations,” the Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad’s adviser, Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh as saying. “The fact that it did not participate before raises questions, not the fact that it took part” this time.
A member of Iran’s delegation at the talks, who declined to be identified by name, said before the meeting began that any suspension of Iranian nuclear enrichment was “out of the question.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Ladane Nasseri in Tehran at lnasseri@bloomberg.net.
Evo malo pesimizma
Credit risk diverges across eurozone
By David Oakley in London
July 20 2008 19:27
Investor fears for the credit risk of eurozone countries with weaker economies has increased sharply this month.
Prices of credit default swaps – a kind of insurance against bond defaults and the best gauge of risk in the debt markets – for Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland have all jumped.
Thomas Mayer, chief European economist at Deutsche Bank, said: “For a long time the economic environment was benign, but the party has now come to an end for the eurozone and particularly the peripheral economies, such as Italy and Greece.
Recesija samo što nije i službeno počela u cijeloj Europi
Iran nije odustao od nuklearnog programa, a nafta ostala na 130$. Azijski indeksi u veliko plusu, evropski po običaju u jutarnjem minusu.
samim time što nafta se nije vratila na razine iznad 140$ nakon Iranskog neodgovaranja na zahtjeve govori da nafta ide prema dolje.
Europa otvorila prema planu, osim Norveške koja uvijek izmišlja toplu vodu.
Danas na meniju imamo izvješća American Express, Apple,Bank of America.
U slast!
evo daj mi neko molimte objasni bolesnika kaj je gore čovi dao 1%.
Ja mislim da bi ga moderator trebao udaljit sa foruma.
E i nadam se da bu dobra
Evropa očekivano okrenula u plus. Fjučrsi u laganom minusu. Kao što ententinis reče, čeka se…
eu pojačava plus [thumbsup]
Bank of america objavila manji pad dobiti od očekivanog u premarketu +6%. Zato indeksi rastu