Iran on Tuesday accepted a compromise on the agenda of a 130-nation nuclear conference, clearing the way for the meeting to end six days of deadlock that threatened to doom the gathering, the Associated Press reported. The issue stalling the meeting since it opened April 30 had been Tehran's refusal to accept a phrase calling for the «need for full compliance with» the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. A South African proposal accepted by consensus Tuesday will put an appended statement specifying that «all provisions» of the treaty must be fully observed. A statement by Tehran's chief delegate, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, was quoted as saying that «my government can accept the proposal by South Africa.»
