i think you have to have your eting before mrs. ashton is going to care. and really we are making the same mistake and other issues, like in libya. [applause] >> there is a blue card for mr. david rejects the questions? >> could you please open up your microphone. >> madam president come up with my honorable friend agrees me that and 2006 the united nations we started this process of the responsibility to protect which is downgrade. i don't hear those words come responsibility to protect coming from the council. what is our responsibility to protect using the united nations instruments that we have created? with my friend agrees me that this is where we should go to use those concepts that are responsible t protect within the u.n., which others use in syria and other places. going to syria to protect the innocent people throughthe u.n. and to challenge -- >> the question wasn't addressed to the council. >> it is no problem. the issue is i think that if we have an agreement in the contact group, that can maybe change the position of china and russia. if the

mr. jalily is of course a response to a letter sent by catherine ashton, in her role as the spokesperson for the p5 plus 1. i think the iranian position on the as soon as not really changed. they are prepared to am can to talks. they are prepared to reach various types of agreements, but the fundamental issue, what they would describe as their right to enrich, is not up for negotiation. and i don't think that's going to change going into whatever new talks might come out of this exchange of letters. >> suarez: the letter, as we noted, was welcoming cautiously by the secretary of state. is the idea that talking in general is better than not talking? >> in general, i would agree with that, talking is better than not talking. but i think actually in terms of, you know, whose position is unclear, whose position is ambiguous, i think it's actually the united states and its western partners that aren't clear. if the united states is not prepared as a basis for negotiations, a basis for trying to reach an agreement on the nuclear issue, to accept both the principle and reality of safeguarded en