EU Studing Iran Plan for Small-Scale Enrichment--Jordan Times

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1//The Jordan Times, Jordan Friday-Saturday, March 25-26, 2005

http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news4.htm



EU STUDYING IRAN PLAN FOR SMALL-SCALE ENRICHMENT



PARIS (AFP) — The EU is considering an Iranian proposal to allow the Islamic republic to produce enriched uranium on a small scale, despite the bloc's demand that Tehran abandon enrichment to guarantee it will not make atom bombs, officials and diplomats said Thursday.



Iran made the written proposal to be allowed to run a pilot centrifuge project for uranium enrichment at a meeting in Paris on Wednesday with EU negotiators Britain, France and Germany, according to a European official who asked not to be named.



The European trio said in a joint statement released after the meeting that Iran had "presented certain ideas on objective guarantees that Iran's nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes."



But neither they nor Iran provided details.



Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, said Thursday that the proposal it has made to the European Union on easing international concerns over its nuclear programme demonstrated the Islamic republic's "seriousness" in resolving the issue.

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