Onsite and Phone-in Press Conference
IRANIAN NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN
Nonproliferation Experts Goldschmidt and Perkovich
Discuss Next Steps and Options for UN Security Council
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
9:00AM-10:00AM (EST)
TO ACCESS PRESS CONFERENCE CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, +1 202 939 2372 or jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org
The Iran nuclear story is moving fast, and an emergency meeting is scheduled for January 16 between the EU-3, U.S., Russia, and China to discuss whether the IAEA should refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council.
• If Iran is reported to the Security Council, what should Council members do?
• What demands or actions should be included in a Security Council resolution that would give Iran an opportunity to come clean?
• How would the Security Council contain the danger if it doesn’t?
• What demands or actions would overreach and lose the international coalition now forming?
•What, if anything, could reverse the Iranian nuclear course clearly in motion?
Pierre Goldschmidt is uniquely suited to address these issues. He retired this June as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency. As a Visiting Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment, Goldschmidt has written several analytical papers proposing constructive and pragmatic solutions to address the weaknesses of the nonproliferation regime.
Goldschmidt’s most recent Policy Outlook on this issue was released January 10, 2006.
To read: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/PO25.Goldschmidt.FINAL2.pdf
George Perkovich, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, who’s written extensively on and traveled to Iran, will moderate.
Perkovich’s latest op-ed on this issue was in the International Herald Tribune on January 11, 2006.
To read: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=17875
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