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Q. - Another issue for you as Foreign Minister, Iran, who has resumed the enrichment of her uranium, with the risk of this leading to a military nuclear programme. What's to be done, what can the international community do?

THE MINISTER - Today, it's very simple, no civilian nuclear programme can explain the Iranian nuclear programme. So it's an Iranian secret military programme.

Q. - So what do we do?

THE MINISTER - It's simple, in the first place, the international community has sent a very firm message, saying to the Iranians: "See reason, suspend all uranium enrichment and conversion activities", and they aren't listening to us. This is why, for the first time for some days, the international community is united. It's not just the other Europeans behind France, Germany and Britain, but Russia and China too. And this united international community has decided to refer the issue to the United Nations Security Council to which the report of Mr ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will be submitted in early March. Once that's done, it will be up to the Security Council, and it alone, to say what it intends doing, what means it intends giving itself in order to halt, manage, end this terrible nuclear proliferation crisis due to Iran's unilateral action.

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