Dear colleague,
    Iran's uranium enrichment activities have been placed at the center of an international dispute with potentially grave regional and global security implications. Swiss lawmakers have thus taken the initiative to seek to defuse this conflict with diplomatic means (Motion 06.3103: "Good Offices on Current Nuclear Energy Matters": www.solami.com/nptmotion.htm#Swiss).
    Israel - no less than Iran, a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (.../NPT.htm) - may find it indicated to take recourse to the procedures outlined in UNSC resolution 255 (1968). For while Iran claims its activities to be fully in line with its rights & obligations under the NPT, and has declared them to be for peaceful purposes, it has invoked sovereign rights to carry them further. And though the IAEA has produced no evidence to the contrary, Israel has expressed concern over these activities, officially declaring their continuation to constitute an existential threat to the State of Israel (.../iran.htm).
    Coupled with related official declarations by the Iranian President on the one hand, and the Israeli Prime Minister on the other, questions thus arise, such as:
1.    Which, if any, of the activities and/or official declarations at issue constitute now, or at what point in the future, a threat in the sense of UNSCR 255 (1968)?
2.    As lawmaker in your country, are you prepared to consult with colleagues abroad on the above initiatives by Swiss lawmakers and on such related ideas as outlined in various memoranda to the UN Secretary General (.../annan.htm), perhaps in preparation of a follow-up meeting to the 1968 Geneva Conference of Non-Nuclear Weapon States until whose conclusion the contested Iranian enrichment activities would be suspended?
    Thanking you in advance for your benevolant consideration of this matter, I shall be glad to assist you in all related matters. Sincerely yours,

Anton Keller, Secretary, Good Offices Group of European Lawmakers
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UN Security Council Resolution 255 (1968)
S/RES/255 (1968)    (Adopted by the Security Council on 19 June 1968)

Question Relating to Measures to Safeguard Non-Nuclear-Weapon States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The Security Council,
    Noting with appreciation the desire of a large number of States to subscribe to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and thereby to undertake not to receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly or indirectly, not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices,
    Taking into consideration the concern of certain of these States that, in conjunction with their adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, appropriate measures be undertaken to safeguard their security,
    Bearing in mind that any aggression accompanied by the use of nuclear weapons would endanger the peace and security of all States,
1. Recognizes that aggression with nuclear weapons or the threat of such aggression against a non-nuclear-weapon State would create a situation in which the Security Council, and above all its nuclear-weapon State permanent members, would have to act immediately in accordance with their obligations under the United Nations Charter;
2. Welcomes the intention expressed by certain States that they will provide or support immediate assistance, in accordance with the Charter, to any non-nuclear- weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons that is a victim of an act or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used;
3. Reaffirms in particular the inherent right, recognized under Article 51 of the Charter, of individual and collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
(adopted at the 1433rd session by 10 to 0 votes, with 5 abstentions (Algeria, Brasil, France, India and Pakistan)