Unofficial translation
06.10.2008
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
His Excellency Dr Solana
High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Secretary General of the European Union and Representative of the six countries
Excellency,
In view of the Geneva Talks and the emphasis of both sides on presenting a clear response to each other, the Islamic Republic of Iran in its letter of 5 August 2008 expressed its readiness to offer transparent response vis-à-vis receiving clear replies to its questions.
Soon after, while welcoming this approach you asked in your telephone conversation of 11 August 2008 that our deputies have a meeting to discuss these ambiguities and questions. However, despite the readiness of the Islamic Republic of Iran, your deputy was not ready to have this meeting even 17 days after that date. Following our conversation which was characterized by you as serious, substantive and successful, your representative stated that he would raise the serious questions of the Islamic Republic of Iran with other members. Ten days later he stated in a telephone contact that the Directors of the six countries will meet in Washington DC and later their foreign ministers will confer in New York to review and answer the questions raised by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It is interesting for the international community to see that in the course of talks when a rational question is raised, the other party to the talks resorts to levers of pressure instead of offering answers to questions and trying to remove ambiguities. In the judgement of the world community, this unreasonable behaviour is an indication of the lack of a clear response to the principled questions of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It also reinforces the doubt that some powers look at talks as merely a tactical and temporarily tool. The absence of civilized tradition of "dialogue" among certain powers that prefer to use levers of pressure against nations instead of reasoning, is not an unknown matter to the world community.
About 6 months ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran proposed a package of proposals, based on its actual capabilities and capacities for the purpose of paving the way for talks on common concerns with collective commitments to have a world based on justice, peace and tranquillity. You are fully aware of the main building blocks of our package for a world free of weapons of mass destruction, collective efforts for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. It appears that these proposals are not pleasing for those powers that have worked many years to stockpile and proliferate nuclear weapons.
There is no doubt that accepting of this proposal, trying not to miss the time and the opportunity and avoiding illogical behaviour, could have given us a solid base for constructive cooperative relationships.
Sincerely yours,
Saeed Jalili
Secretary General of the Supreme National Security Council
of the Islamic Republic of Iran
c.c.
H.E. Mr. Yang Jiechi
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
H.E. Dr. Bernard Kouchner
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic
H.E. Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Deputy Federal Chancellor and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany
H.E. Mr. Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
H.E. Mr. Miliband
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
H.E. Dr. Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of State of the United States of America