Miliband and Rice forge joint approach on US arms export controls

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke optimistically about prospects for treaties that would ease US arms export controls to Britain and Australia.

The two also said in a joint news conference that they were in agreement about policy on Iran. They said they would discuss a package of incentives that they and other world powers recently offered Iran in an attempt to lure Tehran back into negotiations over its disputed nuclear power programme.