Draft agreement on Iran uranium deal on table: IAEA chief [View All]

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A draft agreement has been drawn up after talks between Iran, Russia, the United States and France on supply of enriched uranium to Tehran and sent to capitals for approval by Friday, UN watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said Wednesday.


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Iran, Powers Get Draft Deal For Approval By Friday

By REUTERS
Published: October 21, 2009
Filed at 7:15 a.m. ET

Skip to next paragraph VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Wednesday he had given Iran and three world powers a draft text of a deal for approval by Friday to help allay concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme.

International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei spoke at the conclusion of two and a half days of difficult, politically charged talks involving Iran, France, Russia and the United States at IAEA headquarters.

Diplomats said ElBaradei's draft contained the powers' call for Iran to send some 75 percent of its enriched uranium reserve abroad before the end of this year for conversion into fuel for a Tehran reactor producing medical isotopes.

This would reduce the high risk cited by the West of Iran, under suspicion over nuclear secrecy and restrictions on IAEA inspections, using a growing low-enriched uranium stockpile to refine to high purity suitable for atom bombs.

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Iran nuclear fuel talks end with proposal but no deal

Vienna - Talks on processing Iran's nuclear fuel abroad concluded Wednesday in Vienna with no final agreement, but with a proposal to be mulled by Iran, Russia, France and the United States until Friday.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that 'that transaction using Iranian low-enriched uranium to be manufactured is a very important confidence-building measure' that 'could open the way for a complete normalization of relations between Iran and the international community.'

The IAEA hosted the four-party talks that started Monday and drafted the proposal.

However, Iran's delegation chief Ali Asghar Soltanieh refused to answer journalists' questions whether his country was in fact ready to ship most or any of it's enriched uranium stock out of the country for further enrichment.

'You'll get an answer to your question on Friday,' he said after the talks hosted by the IAEA.

'And we will come back and reflect our opinion and suggestions or comments in order to have an amicable solution at the end of the day,' he said.

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