Any U.N. Nuclear Edict ??

American, British and French officials are scheduled to meet in New York on Monday to chart a common position on Iran over its failure to comply with the informal Security Council deadline to suspend its uranium enrichment. Britain and France circulated a draft Security Council resolution last Wednesday demanding that Iran give up its nuclear program, which the West believes Iran is using to develop nuclear weapons.

The measure was drafted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, which makes compliance with resolutions mandatory and opens the way to penalties or military action against nations that defy them. But imposing penalties would require a second resolution.

China and Russia, permanent Security Council members with veto power, have declared opposition to a resolution under Chapter VII.

A majority of members of Iran's Parliament said in a statement yesterday that if the United Nations invoked Chapter VII, Parliament would call on the government to consider quitting the nuclear treaty, Reuters reported.

The American ambassador to the United Nations, said yesterday that he believed that the resolution would move to a vote this week, with or without support from Russia and China, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Bolton said Parliament's threat would not deter a United Nations resolution. "It shows they remain desperate to conceal that their nuclear program is in fact a weapons program," he said.