英國給伊朗寫在隊伍

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英國由外交筆記上星期反應了15名英國的海軍人員伊朗的捕獲在海灣， Margaret Beckett，英國的外交部長，說。

「我們有外交筆記，并且我們做了我們的反應」，在星期六她在歐共體會議的邊線在布里曼，德國說。

「我認為大家後悔這個位置出現了。 What we want is a way out of it, we want it peacefully and we want it as soon as possible,” Beckett said.

“We would like to be told where our personnel are, we would like to be given access to them, but we want it resolved,” she added.

Apology demanded

Also on Saturday, Iran’s president said the British governnment was not following “the legal and logical way” over the case.

“After the arrest of these people, the British government, instead of apologising and expressing regret, over the action taken, started to claim that we are in their debt and shouted in different international councils,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the state radio report.

“But this is not the legal and logical way for this issue.”

A diplomatic note from Iran to Britain released on Friday condemned the “illegal act” by British naval staff and called on the UK to accept responsibilty for the standoff.

Also on Friday, Iranian television broadcast footage of three of the British naval personnel in which one of them apologised for entering Iranian waters without permission.

Britain has insisted that the naval personnel were in Iraqi waters when they were detained.

Trial denied

Iran’s ambassador to Moscow has meanwhile denied saying that the British naval personnel held by Iran may face trial for illegally entering Iranian waters.

Gholam Reza Ansari said a Russian television station had mistranslated his remarks.

“The network has made a mistake in translating the comments about detained British personnel and has reported the possibility of their trial,” he told the Iranian state news agency IRNA.

Ansari was earlier quoted by IRNA as telling Russian television channel Vesti-24: “It is possible that the British soldiers who entered into Iranian waters will go on trial.”

“The legal phase concerning these British soldiers has started and if charges against them are proven, they will be punished,” he said.

Mediation offer

Terry White, a former British hostage who was held captive for almost five years in Lebanon from 1987 to 1991, has offered to mediate in resolving the crisis.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, White expressed his readiness to visit Iran to persuade Tehran free the seized personnel.

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