No force against Iran: Russia | | The Australian

No force against Iran: Russia | | The Australian: "From correspondents in Moscow
June 02, 2006
TALKS between six world powers in Vienna on the Iranian nuclear issue excluded all recourse to force as a method of solving the problem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

'I can unequivocally say that all the agreements from yesterday's meeting in all circumstances exclude the use of military force' against Iran, he was quoted by RIA-Novosti news agency as saying.

Speaking after world powers agreed on a package of incentives and sanctions to get Iran to suspend nuclear fuel work, Mr Lavrov said that Iran had not been presented with any kind of deadline.

'There is no kind of ultimatum deadline, although I think we are talking about several weeks,' he said."