A senior U.S. official is set today to
begin talks aimed at encouraging Turkey and Azerbaijan to curb their
economic ties with Iran over the Middle Eastern nation's disputed atomic
work, the Wall Street Journal reported today (see GSN, Oct. 19).
U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey is expected to launch his
meetings with officials and private-sector leaders in Baku, Azerbaijan.
He would later hold additional meetings in Istanbul and Ankara.
"We're looking to follow up on the steps needed to implement the
latest United Nations sanctions against Iran and to share information,
especially with the private sector, about threats posed by Iranian
illicit conduct," Levey told the Journal last week. The U.N.
Security Council has imposed four sanctions resolutions aimed at
pressuring Iran to halt atomic activities that could support bomb
development, and the European Union and various countries have followed
up with independent penalties.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, though, last month vowed
within five years to achieve a threefold boost in business with Iran,
which has insisted its nuclear program is strictly nonmilitary in
nature.
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