Foreign Secretary meets Iranian Foreign Minister
Foreign Secretary William Hague met Iranian Foreign Minister Salehi at the UN in New York on 21 September.
皇冠体育app Foreign Secretary emphasised that there was no animosity between the British people and the Iranian people. 皇冠体育app UK would continue to seek areas on which it could build deeper cooperation with Iran, such as counter-narcotics and Afghanistan. But there were important areas of disagreement between the UK and Iran.
皇冠体育app UK respected Iran鈥檚 right to civil nuclear power. But Iran had not persuaded the international community that its nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes. 皇冠体育app UK would, as part of the E3+3 maintain its strong resolve to oppose nuclear proliferation.
皇冠体育app Foreign Secretary told Mr Salehi that the UK believed in universal human rights. In that context, the execution today of a 17-year old boy, in contravention of Iran鈥檚 obligations under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, had caused huge international concern.