to ensure that both sides stick by the commitments which we have already entered into.

We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.

I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead,

There are now discussions taking place on other aspects of the negotiating framework, principally on this issue about absorption capacity and privileged partnership,

notwithstanding the great difficulties.

We want to see these talks resumed because we not only believe this is in the interests of the international community, but also in the interests of Iran.