Saturday February 25, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Most people have never heard of Sergei Kiriyenko.
S-E-R-G-E-I K-I-R-I-Y-E-N-K-O, a name to remember.
He is the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency.

Kiriyenko and a team of Russians arrived in Teheran on Thursday for serious talks concerning Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
The Russians are recommending a compromise. The Russians are recommending that they supervise Iran's uranium enrichment in Russia or even in Teheran.

The mere fact of Kiriyenko's presence at such a meeting means that the negotiations are not purely diplomatic, that they are not only window dressing for the world. Kiriyenko's presence signals a working meeting, a rational, practical, effort dealing with the process of enrichment and the issue of nuclear energy.

This is an important step.
This may be the first step in the resolution of what can easily become an international incident.
This is good news.