Last Modified: 08 Aug 2008 Source: ITN A senior British official has warned an agreement on new international sanctions against Iran will be difficult. Britain and other leading powers announced this week that they would be seeking new measures in the United Nations Security Council after Tehran rejected a call to freeze its uranium enrichment work in return for talks on economic assistance. Diplomats from the so-called E3+3 group of Britain, France, and Germany plus the US, Russia, and China, are expected to begin detailed discussions in the autumn on a package of financial sanctions. However one UK official acknowledged that finding agreement on a common text was unlikely to be easy. He said: "I have no illusions that it will be difficult, as it was last time, to actually agree the text of some tough sanctions in the...
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