| Iran offers package of proposals in Baghdad nuclear talks |
| Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-05-24 00:37 |
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Iranian delegation to Baghdad nuclear talks led by Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, offered on Wednesday a five-pivot package of proposals to representatives of the UN Security Council's five permanent members(the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China) plus Germany,(P5+1), the official IRNA news agency reported.
The package encompasses proposals on Iran's nuclear program as well as other international issues, said the report.
It envisaged a step-by-step approach to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and the practical steps that the western governments should take in parallel, according to IRNA.
Representatives of P5+1 are expected to put forward their views on Iranian proposals.
The six world powers also offered proposals, but they presented their package verbally, said IRNA's report without elaborating on them.
On Wednesday, Iran denied the reports that the world powers submitted a proposal to Iran to reduce uranium enrichment during Baghdad nuclear talks.
"Any proposal to reduce uranium enrichment from 20 percent to 5 percent and in return to ease sanctions imposed on Iran, has not been presented by world powers," Talib Mahdi, a member of the Iranian delegation, told Xinhua on the sidelines of Baghdad nuclear meeting.
"Such proposal could be accepted by Iran because it would be a clear international recognition that Iran has the right to obtain nuclear energy," Mahdi said.
Earlier in the day, Michael Mann, spokesman of EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, told reporters that"We have presented a proposal to Iran stating that Iran to reduce its uranium enrichment from 20 percent to 5 percent in return for easing sanctions."
In the afternoon, representatives from Iran and the P5+1, in addition to EU, kicked off crunch talks aimed at defusing the long- running escalating crisis over Tehran's nuclear program.
The meeting was held in one of the palaces in the presidential complex in the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad that houses the Iraqi government offices and some foreign embassies, including the U.S. one.
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