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QUESTION: Tomorrow is going to be sixth months since we said Iran had three and a half months to suspend enrichment or face sanctions and this draft resolution will come up at the Security Council. Do we ever reach a point where the whole unity of the P-5+1 becomes secondary to actually coming up with something (inaudible) them? And do you think that -- do you still think we're going to be able to get Russia to sign on to anything that's meaningful?

SECRETARY RICE: I think we will get a Chapter 7 resolution. But obviously, we'd like to keep the unity of the P-5, but the -- the P-5+1, but unity is not an end in itself. The goal is to get a resolution that makes sense in terms of convincing the Iranians that their behavior is not acceptable in the international community and I might just note that we just had a recent report by Mohamed ElBaradei as well that is very clear about Iranian non-cooperation and his own frustration in being unable to answer important questions about the Iranian so-called civil nuclear program. And so yeah, we have to do something. And I'm all for maintaining unity, but I'm also in favor of action. And we'll just have to look at what the options are. I still think that we had very good discussions with the Russians when we were in Hanoi and I hope that that's soon going to be reflected in what happens at the Security Council. But the passage of a Chapter 7 resolution will make a difference because whatever is in it, the Iranians will be in a very small club of countries under Chapter 7 resolution and that has an effect on your reputation. It has an effect on people's willingness to deal with you. It has an effect on what political scientists call the shadow of a future if people start making decisions about what they will or will not do with Iran. So getting a Chapter 7 resolution is very important.

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