Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing met in Beijing on Thursday with
visiting Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.
Larijani, also secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
Council, arrived here on Thursday morning from Tehran on a day-long
visit.
Larijani is expected to hold a press conference at the Iranian
embassy in Beijing after having another meeting with State
Councilor Tang Jiaxuan on Thursday afternoon. He is scheduled to
leave Beijing in the evening, according to sources in the
embassy.
Iran is facing referral to the United Nations Security Council
for possible sanctions over Western fears that it may seek to build
an atomic bomb.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will convene an
emergency session of its board of governors on February 2-3 to vote
on a referral at the request of the EU, after Iran resumed its
research on uranium enrichment -- the most sensitive part of the
nuclear fuel cycle -- earlier this month.
(Xinhua News Agency January 26, 2006)
