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IAEA: Iran offer still on table

IAEA will continue to work in good faith as impartial intermediary, spokeswoman says

A proposal for Iran to send most of its enriched uranium abroad to allay fears it will be used to make atom bombs remains on the table, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, despite Tehran's rejection of key terms.

  

"The proposal made by the IAEA in October 2009, which was supported by France, Russia and the United States, continues to be on the table," International Atomic Energy spokeswoman Gill Tudor told Reuters in Vienna.

  

"The IAEA will continue to work in good faith as an impartial intermediary. We hope that agreement among the parties will be reached as quickly as possible (to) contribute to the establishment of confidence," she said.

  

On Tuesday, diplomats said that Iran has formally rejected key parts of the proposed deal Tehy said Iran's position, given in writing to the International Atomic Energy Agency, echoed two months of verbal calls for amendments to the deal that Western powers dismissed as non-starters but said did not amount to a final response.

  

In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Iran's response was inadequate.

 

"I am not sure that they have delivered a formal response but it is clearly an inadequate response," he told reporters. "I am not sure that whatever they have done, perhaps today, is any different than what they have done previously."

 


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