Answering reporters' questions regarding Iran following his address on Thursday at the UN General Assembly in New York, he said: “We have delivered our message regarding Iran at the United Nations Security Council. We will now pay a visit to Iran by the end of October or in November. Then, we will have a chance to discuss these issues in more detail.” Erdoğan said at the UN that the proliferation of nuclear weapons was dangerous. “We think that having weapons of mass destruction does not bring extra security to any country in this era,” he said.
Regarding Iran's nuclear program, Erdoğan said that the conflict should be solved through dialogue. Erdoğan met Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week. Saying that Turkey will not support further sanctions on Iran and calling for talks to resolve the dispute, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had talks recently with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and offered Turkey as the venue for the upcoming talks on Iran's nuclear program. Shortly after, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said that upcoming talks will likely be held in Turkey on Oct. 1 with the formal participation of the United States for the first time. Iran has not yet responded as to whether or not it accepts Turkey's offer to be a host country for the talks on its nuclear program in efforts to resolve the standoff over the Islamic Republic's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment and heed other UN Security Council demands.
