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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany told their European Union partners on Friday they would support referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it resumes uranium enrichment or breaches nuclear commitments.
Diplomats said their joint statement was part of a trade-off with the United States under which Washington will announce later on Friday that it is dropping its opposition to Iran's bid to start negotiations to join the World Trade Organization.
The three powers said in a letter to EU president Luxembourg that "progress is not as fast as we would wish" in talks they began last December to persuade Tehran to end its most sensitive nuclear work in return for economic and political benefits.
The United States accuses Iran of secretly working to produce nuclear weapons. Tehran says its atomic program, long concealed from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, is purely for civilian energy purposes.
The EU3 said that if Iran continued its suspension of all enrichment and reprocessing activities and cooperated fully with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, they believed the issue could be resolved at that level.
"If on the other hand, despite our efforts Iran does not do so, then as has been implicit in the agreements reached with Iran and well understood by all concerned, we shall have no choice but to support referring Iran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council," the letter made available to Reuters said.
NO MENTION OF SANCTIONS
It made no mention of the possibility of U.N. sanctions against Tehran. Diplomats said Washington had pressed for such a reference but the EU3 had replied that it would be up to the Security Council to decide what action to take.
"We are united in our determination that Iran should not acquire a nuclear weapons capability," the three countries said.
The three-page letter gave a broad outline of the talks in three working groups on nuclear issues, political and security matters and technology and economic cooperation, but contained no surprises.
As expected, it said the nuclear aspect was the toughest, since "both sides have strongly held positions on this difficult issue, which remains at the core of the negotiations, and discussions continue."
Iran insists it will never give up its right to a peaceful nuclear program, including uranium enrichment to complete the fuel cycle, which experts say could enable it to produce a bomb.
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