By KUNA,
Brussels : The European Parliaments (EP)Foreign Affairs Committee has adopted a report calling for Europe to be made a “nuclear-weapon-free zone,” and for a “global convention banning nuclear weapons.” With regard to the specific case of Iran , the report “reaffirms that the proliferation risks attaching to the Iranian nuclear programme remain a source of serious concern to the EU and the international community,” and calls “on the US to join the EU-3 in direct negotiations with Iran , noted an EP statement Wednesday. The report recommends that “political and economic relations with China be deepened in 2008, on condition that substantial progress be made in the field of democracy and human rights, and that China heed the EU’s grave concerns about its conduct in Tibet .” It notes that strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy should be a “main objective for 2008,” especially in three region : the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.