{"id":14595,"date":"2012-09-13T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africa-throws-un-nuclear-meeting-on-iran-into-disarray\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:17:16","slug":"s-africa-throws-un-nuclear-meeting-on-iran-into-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-throws-un-nuclear-meeting-on-iran-into-disarray\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa throws UN nuclear meeting on Iran into disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* World powers agreed wording of a rebuke to Iran<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* UN nuclear agency board was set to vote Thursday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amendment creates &#8220;procedural chaos&#8221; &#8211; Western diplomat<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Fredrik Dahl<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>VIENNA, Sept 13 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa proposed a<br \/>\nlast-minute change to a U.N. nuclear agency resolution rebuking<br \/>\nIran on Thursday, throwing the meeting into confusion, diplomats<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Six world powers put forward the draft text on Wednesday,<br \/>\naiming to add diplomatic pressure on Tehran, a day after Israel<br \/>\nramped up threats to attack the Islamic Republic which it<br \/>\nbelieves is seeking nuclear weapons capability.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Intended to signal big power unity and criticise Iran for<br \/>\ndefying U.N. calls to curb its nuclear work, the full 35-nation<br \/>\ngoverning board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)<br \/>\nhad been expected to vote on and approve the text on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But South Africa, like Iran a member of the Non-Aligned<br \/>\nMovement (NAM) of mainly developing nations, proposed a change<br \/>\nto the board resolution agreed by the United States, Russia,<br \/>\nFrance, China, Britain and Germany.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a result the board meeting that started at 10 a.m. (0800<br \/>\nGMT) was adjourned until 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) for talks on how to<br \/>\nproceed. &#8220;There is procedural chaos,&#8221; one Western envoy said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* World powers agreed wording of a rebuke to Iran * UN nuclear agency board was set to vote Thursday * Amendment creates &#8220;procedural chaos&#8221; &#8211; Western diplomat By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, Sept 13 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa proposed a last-minute change to a U.N. nuclear agency resolution rebuking Iran on Thursday, throwing the meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}