The European Union said Saturday it will not give Iran much time to resolve its standoff with the international community over its nuclear enrichment program but fixed no deadline. Javier Solana, the EU's foreign and security affairs chief, said he would meet «in the coming days» with Ali Larijani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. «I hope that it will be very short. We don't need many meetings,» he told reporters. Wrapping up two days of informal talks, the EU foreign ministers expressed a desire for renewed diplomacy even though Iran's president insisted a day earlier that his country will never give up a nuclear program that he said had been misrepresented by the West. Solana said a decision by Iran on stopping uranium enrichment, as demanded by the U.N. Security Council, was «the most important thing.» British European Affairs Minister Geoff Hoon said the EU set no deadline for Iran to comply with that demand, according to a report of the Associated Press.
