Iran Announces New Nuclear Program Proposals

Forum Contacts RSS		RUSSIAN

RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED April 23, 2013

Iran said it voiced on Friday new proposals concerning its nuclear program to the group of six international negotiators comprising five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany (P5+1).

Iran’s new plan is meant to bring about “the beginning of new cooperation” with its negotiating partners, said Ali Bagheri, the deputy head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

The plan expands on the initiatives presented during last year’s round of talks in Moscow, Bagheri said.

No details of the plan were available to the press on day one of the two-day talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Almaty, which is hosting the second round of talks between Iran and P5+1 members since February.

Iran insists on its right to a peaceful nuclear program, but the P5+1 countries say they fear Tehran may be aiming to produce atomic weaponry.

Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said ahead of the talks on Friday that international negotiators may recognize Iran’s right to enrich uranium, but only if Tehran proves the peaceful nature of its nuclear research.

“Talks are difficult but interesting, we’re getting new twists, new approaches,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said after the first day of talks in Almaty.

“I’m unable to predict how tomorrow’s [session] will end,” Ryabkov added.

Topics: Asia, Iran

Other news:

The transaction on consolidation of a 100% stake in Uranium One Inc. by ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. has received court approval and regulatory approval

The transaction on consolidation of a 100% stake in Uranium One Inc. by ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. has been approved both by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Canada, and regulators in Russia, Australia and the USA.

Russia Eyes Nuclear Power Project in Finland – Source

A government source told RIA Novosti.

Belarus NPP: the construction is ahead of schedule

In September 2013 it is necessary to complete work on all 62 facilities of the construction support base and off-site grids and utilities.

Hero of the day

Jacques Repussard: knowledge, independence, proximity

They told me: "Mr Repussard, we're not used to responding to anti-nuclear organisations". To which I replied: "We will not reveal any state or trade secrets, but we will not leave them without any answer".

INTERVIEW

Georgy Toshinsky
Not quite so. The authors of the concept, which was difficult to be realized in practice, turned to a clearer concept of a standing wave reactor (TP-1) that in principle allows finding the solution to the tasks stated for TWRs.

OPINION

Andrey Zolotov, Jr.
After an overnight trip from Moscow, the train chugs into a tiny, single-track station and stops at closed metal gates crowned with barbed wire.