Introducing Mrs. Beckett:

Beckett's first job is to heal split over Iran
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor

MARGARET BECKETT will be thrown into the deep end of international politics today when her maiden trip as Foreign Secretary takes her to New York for a crucial round of talks on how to curb the nuclear ambitions of Iran.

After three days in the job Mrs Beckett will meet her counterparts from the four other permanent members of the UN Security Council — and Germany — who are locked in bitter dispute over how to proceed. Over the weekend Russia and China made clear their opposition to a resolution, proposed by Britain and France, to force Iran to halt its uranium enrichment work or face the possibility of sanctions.

Iran threatened to quit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which controls the spread of nuclear technology, if the UN acted against it. The talks tonight — over a dinner that Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, will host — are the culmination of months of delicate diplomacy that Jack Straw, the former Foreign Secretary, was instrumental in developing. The draft resolution is under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, making its demands binding. If Tehran did not comply, it would face the threat of sanctions or military force in a follow-up resolution.

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Moscow and Beijing are resisting any move that could lead to economic sanctions. Sergei Kislyak, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, said that the Anglo-French draft required “major changes” before it would be acceptable to the Kremlin.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2169977,00.html

Oh well let us see where all this going.
Answer will be NO.
See US next spin in direction.
Last card bush and all your got is a Queen of Clubs.

She was first in the Cabinet under Callaghan in the 1970s, she knows politics. She hasn't just fallen out of a tree.