China to send envoy to Iran, urges restraint
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-13 15:29
China will send a top envoy on arms control to Iran and Russia in an effort
to defuse the Iran nuclear standoff with the West, a ministry spokesman said on
Thursday, urging restraint on all sides.
Assistant Foreign Minister Cui
Tiankai would visit Iran and Russia from April 14 to 18, spokesman Liu Jianchao
told a regular news conference.
"We hope the relevant parties can
exercise restraint and not take measures that will escalate the situation," Liu
said.
Iran declared earlier this week it had enriched its first batch of
uranium, in defiance of the United Nations and Western countries which worry its
atomic research is aimed at making nuclear weapons.
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