French President Jacques Chirac said on Friday he supported temporary, reversible and specially adapted sanctions against Iran if talks over its uranium-enrichment activities failed.
"It goes without saying that if it seemed that this dialogue was failing, appropriate, adapted, temporary and reversible sanctions will probably have to be found and imposed to show Iran that the whole of the international community does not understand its position," Chirac told a news conference on a visit to the central Chinese industrial city of Wuhan.
Diplomats from Russia, the United States, Britain, France, China and Germany are looking to agree on a package of sanctions against Iran, which would ban Iranian trade in nuclear materials and ballistic missiles.
Some US critics have accused Chirac of trying to take a soft line with Tehran.
Chirac also said there was no divergence between China and other major world powers over North Korea, which carried out a test nuclear explosion earlier this month.
"I have observed how China has in the clearest fashion associated itself without reserve with UN resolution 1718, which condemns North Korea's position in this field. "And I do not have the feeling that there is any divergence between the Chinese authorities and the international community on this problem," he said.
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