"Sanctions or military action -- none of them is a lasting solution that will only exacerbate the situation. We need to evolve something that involves Iran," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in an interactive session at the India Global Forum here.
19 April 2008: PTI
New Delhi (PTI): India on Saturday said military action or sanctions against Iran would exacerbate the situation and favoured a solution which involves Tehran.
"Sanctions or military action -- none of them is a lasting solution that will only exacerbate the situation. We need to evolve something that involves Iran," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in an interactive session at the India Global Forum here.
Menon said India has made its stand quite clear that while Iran may have the right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy it also has an obligation to various international commitments it undertook.
"Ultimately it is an issue of whether or not it is implementing the obligations it undertook. It depends on technical assessments which are best done by the IAEA," he said.
Stressing on the need to change the world looks at non-proliferation, Menon favoured new international consensus on the issue.
"We need to have in place a system to which Iran is a party," he said adding sanctions and military action will only "exacerbate" the situation.
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