综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語(yǔ)Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

Japan, US near deal on Iran oil import cuts

China Daily | Updated: 2012-02-22 08:20

 Japan, US near deal on Iran oil import cuts

Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report as they are escorted by Tokyo Electric Power Co employees at TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, on Monday. Issei Kato / Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan is close to agreement with Washington on the size of cuts refiners must make in imports of Iranian crude oil to win waivers from US sanctions, two ministers said on Tuesday after a media report the two sides would settle on an 11 percent cut.

The Yomiuri newspaper, citing unidentified sources, said Japan and the United States reached an agreement at talks last week about the size of cuts to crude imports from Iran, with a formal deal expected by the end of this month.

Avoiding sanctions is essential to protect the Japanese financial sector's operations abroad, but cutting oil imports could pose a risk to Japan's economy.

Reliance on oil imports has grown since a 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima radiation crisis, leading to most nuclear reactors at Japanese power plants being shut down.

"We are closely negotiating with the United States and are moving forward toward mutual understanding, but it is not the case that we have reached a conclusion," Trade Minister Yukio Edano told reporters.

In another development, a high-ranking delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Teheran on Monday for talks on the relevant issues of Iran's nuclear program.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Beijing welcomes the move and hopes both sides sustain the good atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation. "China believes this will contribute to a comprehensive, lasting and appropriate solution of the nuclear issue," he said on Tuesday.

Washington is pushing ahead with sanctions because it fears Iran might use its nuclear program to develop nuclear weapons. The European Union has imposed its own embargo on oil imports from Iran, to start from July 1. In response, Iran ordered a halt of oil sales to Britain and France on Sunday in a move symbolic of Teheran's anger with the West.

Iran, the biggest producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia, denies Western suspicions that its nuclear program has military goals, saying it is for purely peaceful purposes.

The United States says it will punish financial institutions that deal with Iran's central bank, the main clearing house for oil revenues, by shutting them out of US markets.

China Daily-Reuters-Xinhua

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
黑龙江省| 彰武县| 赤壁市| 铁力市| 靖宇县| 星座| 酒泉市| 华蓥市| 铅山县| 南通市| 天柱县| 泰顺县| 北碚区| 丰原市| 五寨县| 嘉荫县| 儋州市| 陆良县| 拉孜县| 垣曲县| 高平市| 福安市| 松溪县| 灵璧县| 双辽市| 徐水县| 邢台市| 镇沅| 海原县| 平果县| 宁都县| 高碑店市| 宁阳县| 盱眙县| 玛曲县| 瑞昌市| 和平县| 普兰县| 吐鲁番市| 宝应县| 临沂市|