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Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu called on all sides to "redouble diplomatic efforts" to persuade Iran to end its nuclear programme.
Her remarks came after Russia indicated it could soften its longstanding opposition to further sanctions.
Iran's nuclear ambitions are set to lead Thursday's nuclear proliferation debate at the UN General Assembly as many Western states believe it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
Speaking in Beijing, Ms Jiang said:
"We believe that sanctions and exerting pressure are not the way to solve problems and are not conducive for the current diplomatic efforts on the Iran nuclear issue."
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UK Telegraph 050814:
Iran's lead foreign policy diplomat to the IAEA Hosein Musavian boasts in an interview on Iranian TV that Teheran took advantage of nine months of "talk" with the UE 3 to finish work at its Isfahan enrichment facility:
"Thanks to negotiations with Europe we gained another nine months in which to complete the project in Isfahan."
Mr. Musavian also claimed that work onnuclear centerfuges at a plant in Natanz, which was kept secret until Iran's exiled opposition revealed its existance in 2002, progressed during talks with the EU.
"We needed six to twelve months to complete work on the centrifuges, the IAEA gave us a 50 day extension to suspend enrichment - by using it to geginn talks with the EU 3 [Britan, France & Russia] which gained us another year to complete the project"
[Yeah, more talks should do it.]
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