Clinton has called for Iran to discuss the Afghan settlement.

KommentariiSdelka, which is not obsuzhdalas04.03.2009SShA willing to abrogate the ABM deployment of assistance to Russia in the Iranian voproseSoedinennye States were made in March for conducting an international conference to resolve the situation in Afghanistan, writes The New York Times. Among the invited parties are invited to include Iran.
During the meeting, NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said: "We presented the idea of so-called" meeting in the big tent ", which will be able to attend all the parties who have interests in Afghanistan. If the idea of the meeting would develop, We believe that Iran is a neighbor of Afghanistan, will be among the invitees. " The conference should be for the United States a forum in which they can submit a new Afghan course: a review of policies in this direction is expected to be completed by March.
To request a conference on 31 March the U.S. called on the Netherlands as well as the Presidency of the parties should address the UN. Comments from the Iranian side about the possible participation in the meeting were reported. Establishment of diplomatic contacts with Iran named as one of the purposes of administration of Barack Obama, and cooperation on Afghanistan is considered a possible starting point for this.
Clinton earlier in the week said that Iran can play an important role in the Afghan settlement, and recalled that at the beginning of the campaign the U.S. and its allies against the Taliban in 2001, the Tehran had regular consultations with Washington. However, the secretary of state once again stressed that Iran's nuclear program is unacceptable for the U.S., and deployment plans in Eastern Europe missile defense system elements to protect against a possible Iranian missile threat.
"Debate on the stage of development of Iranian nuclear weapons program continues. But credible debate about the intentions of the Iranians, I think, no," - said Clinton. U.S. and its allies have steadfastly argued that Iran's nuclear program is not aimed at peaceful purposes, and to create weapons of mass destruction. Previously the information now that Obama appealed to the Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev with the proposal of cooperation against the development of Iranian nuclear program, vowing instead to abandon plans to deploy missile defense. Both sides hastened to assure that no transaction has not yet been discussed, but the fact of the discussion and defense of Iran confirmed.
During the meeting in Brussels have taken important steps toward Russia. First, Clinton has invited Moscow to cooperate in the issue of missile defense. Secondly, member countries of NATO with the filing of the U.S. officially announced the renewal of relations with Russia bloc, which was phased out after the August conflict in South Ossetia. Further development of US-Russian relations, which were in decline by the end of the presidency of George Bush, Clinton should serve as a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov scheduled for Friday in Geneva.