In the Paris Agreement Iran subscribed to a total suspension of all activities connected with enrichment and all reprocessing activities.

Suspicions that these sites could be involved in enrichment activities proved to be well founded.

Their condition for negotiating with Iran is a prior halt of its nuclear enrichment activities.

Among other things, it must ratify the additional protocol and suspend all enrichment and reprocessing activities.

Illicit enrichment

Until all outstanding questions have been resolved, we believe Iran must maintain the suspension of all its uranium enrichment related activities.

The US has so far insisted that it will agree to a comprehensive dialogue only if Iran first suspends its enrichment activities.

In Resolution 1696 of 31 July 2006, the United Nations Security Council demanded that Iran suspend all enrichment and reprocessing related activities.

As Iran s uranium enrichment and other weapons development activities continue unabated, the US needs to make a break with the old rules of engagement.

Third, the States parties should improve control over proliferation of sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, specifically, activities involving uranium enrichment and plutonium separation.

It is a great pity that formal negotiations with Iran have been stalled since 2005 amid Western demands that Iran suspend all of its enrichment related activities.

Japan recognizes the importance of the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran has voluntarily continued and extended its suspension of all uranium enrichment related and reprocessing activities.

The Islamic Republic of Iran had signed the additional protocol in December 2003 and had undertaken to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities as a confidence building measure.

The Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004 make it an offence to make an unauthorised disclosure of uranium enrichment technology.

Uranium enrichment is certainly the first condition for making bombs, but the level of enrichment must reach about 95 , compared to 3.5 for energy production.

Iran responded to the demand to stop enrichment of uranium 24 August 2006, offering to return to the negotiation table but refusing to end enrichment.

Indeed, when the UN Security Council formally demanded a stop to the enrichment program and imposed mild sanctions last December, Iran s defiant answer was to increase enrichment activity.

True, Iran s total halt of its enrichment program would be welcome, not least because its government has hidden these activities for almost two decades from Treaty inspectors, suggesting other than purely civilian motives.

Nor was there much evidence of personal enrichment or widespread corruption.

They could also take enrichment courses (aerobics, therapeutic techniques and handicrafts).

Clearly, too, I would hope, in the next year or so, to make some progress with regard to establishing better control over the sensitive parts of the fuel cycle, namely, enrichment and reprocessing activities.

We believe it is incumbent on a non compliant State to return to full compliance and to build the necessary confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear activities in the specific case of Iran, through the suspension of fissile material production and enrichment related activities.

There were also signals emanating from Iran that, having , having mastered uranium enrichment technology, the authorities could envisage continuing enrichment in a third country in a joint consortium with the West.

It should be followed by an agreement that all new enrichment and reprocessing activities will be placed exclusively under multinational control, and that all existing such facilities will be converted from national to multinational control.

The spread of enrichment and reprocessing technology poses a particularly dangerous risk.

This will require an international institutional solution to the problem of enrichment, with participation in the enrichment process entailing new obligations, above all, the willingness to assure transparency through verification and intensive inspections.

More recently, the regime proudly unveiled a modern, high tech uranium enrichment facility.

In UN Security Council Resolution 1737 of 26 December 2006, the Council imposed a series of sanctions on Iran for its non compliance with the earlier Security Council resolution deciding that Iran suspend enrichment related activities without delay.

We reaffirm that all cultures and civilizations can contribute to the enrichment of humankind.

Once negotiations start, Iran would, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, suspend its uranium enrichment and all related activities for six months something that the Iranian government refused even to discuss in the last four years.

Then, in November 2004, in negotiations with European representatives, Iran agreed to suspend nuclear enrichment.

Now, with its new enrichment plant, North Korea s access to fissile materials will greatly increase.

Of course, this enrichment included such practical benefits as medical breakthroughs and labor saving technologies.

As President Bush has proposed, tighter controls should be adopted on enrichment and reprocessing technologies.

On nuclear policy, he said that the era of suspension is over Iran will not accept the suspension of uranium enrichment in upcoming negotiations but will seek to make its nuclear activities more transparent in order to build international confidence.

This autumn, important decisions must be made, because the uranium enrichment process continues unabated in Iran.

The 2005 Summit Outcome recognized that all cultures and civilizations contribute to the enrichment of humankind.

But this can only be a first step. It should be followed by an agreement that all new enrichment and reprocessing activities will be placed exclusively under multinational control, and that all existing such facilities will be converted from national to multinational control.

Mutual enrichment and advancement of knowledge and appreciation of the richness and wisdom found in all civilizations

His political supporters initially brushed aside the mushrooming rumors of his self enrichment as opposition KMT propaganda.

And in 2004, the IAEA blew the whistle on South Korea s non safeguarded plutonium and enrichment experiments.

As details on Bo s family fortune emerge, public discussion gets heated over the enrichment of party officials.

Promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and enrichment of common understanding of human rights

Of course, this does not mean that once Iran has adequate enrichment facilities, it will make a bomb.

The final demand is that Iran shut down its highly protected underground enrichment facility at Fordow, near Qom.