And Mr Bush himself has praised the Europeans' painstaking negotiations with Iran over its uranium-enrichment programme.
In the remaining 2.5 hours children would work with other council staff on an "enrichment programme" of activities.
They, like the others, want Iran to suspend its entire nuclear enrichment programme.
Mahdi Obeidi, who used to run Iraq's covert uranium enrichment programme and had been famously ordered to hide the plans under a tree in his garden, concurs.
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Although we are still reviewing issues related to magnets and magnet production, there is no indication to date that Iraq imported magnets for use in a centrifuge enrichment programme.
America wants to talk to North Korea about how it might dismantle both its plutonium production and the uranium-enrichment programme whose belated discovery sparked the latest crisis over a year ago.
But he told MPs that "there is quite a wide agreement that we do need to explore the whole range of sanctions opportunities", because Iran had not responded to diplomatic pressure over its uranium enrichment programme.
But in October, the US announced that one of its officials, James Kelly, had been told by the North Koreans that they were developing a separate uranium enrichment programme, which could also be used to develop nuclear weapons.
Ali Velayati, who was foreign minister from 1981-97, and remains a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has publicly declared that Iran should accept the proposal, which calls for an initial six-week period of preliminary talks, during which Iran would forego any expansion of its enrichment programme in exchange for a freeze on new sanctions.
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