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Iranians host dinner seeking to avert UN sanctions

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

MAY 7, 2010 02:09

Iran's foreign minister invited the United States and other members of the UN Security Council to dinner Thursday night, his nation's latest high-profile attempt to avert more economic sanctions over its nuclear program.

Western diplomats called it a rare move for a visiting dignitary such as Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to host a dinner for all the council's 15 member nations, each of which was expected to send a representative.

In most if not all cases, diplomats said, nations were sending a senior official, not the top-ranking ambassador, to the dinner.

But the occasion still serves as one of the highest-ranking contacts in recent years between the US and Iran, which lack formal relations. Alejandro Wolff, the US deputy ambassador to the UN, was to attend.

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