GEO 436 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council is to meet later Monday to discuss a package of new nuclear-related sanctions against Iran, a UN spokesman said. Farhan Haq said the full 15-member body would meet at 4:30 pm (2030 GMT) to consider a draft resolution sponsored by the council’’s five permanent members that impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear fuel work. Farhan said the sponsors were hoping to have a vote on the text as early as “the middle of this week.” “The Security Council is meeting this afternoon in consultations to consider a request by Brazil and Turkey to hold a meeting on Iran at some point prior to adoption of sanctions on this issue,” said Marco Morales, a spokesman for Mexican Ambassador Claude Heller, the council chair this month. “We expect to bring the matter before the council this week,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in Washington. Western powers fear that Iran’’s atomic program masks a bid to build nuclear weapons. Tehran denies this, saying the program is aimed at peaceful energy generation, which it insists it has the right to pursue. Last month, Turkey and Brazil brokered a deal under which Iran agreed to ship 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey in return for high-enriched uranium fuel for the Tehran reactor that would be supplied later by Russia and France.
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