ANKARA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator
Ali Larijani said here Thursday that his talks with EU Foreign Policy Chief
Javier Solana churned out new ideas on breaking the impasse over Iran's disputed
nuclear program.
Larijani made the optimistic comments in an interview
with the private CNN-Turk television channel, but he failed to elaborate the new
ideas.
"I can't give exact details because time is needed to
develop them (new ideas)," Larijani said, but adding that the ideas were
positive and concrete.
Larijani also said another meeting on the nuclear
issue would be held in two weeks, but he did not specify the location.
Earlier before Larijani and Solana resumed their
talks, Larijani also said that the two sides were approaching "a united view,"
which is to settle all the issues through negotiation based on international
rules and regulations.
On Wednesday, Larijani and Solana held two rounds of
talks in the Turkish capital of Ankara over Iran's uranium enrichment program.
The UN Security Council has passed two resolutions,
in December and March, urging Iran to halt all enrichment-related and
reprocessing activities, which the United States considered as Iran's attempts
to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of its civilian nuclear programs.
However, Iran has denied the accusation and shown no
sign of yielding in the nuclear stand-off, saying its uranium enrichment has
reached an industrial level and announcing its wishes to install over 50,000
uranium enriching centrifuges at a plant in Natanz.
Earlier this month, Ali Larijani has warned that
Tehran could retreat from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if the
international community imposes further pressure over its nuclear program.
BRUSSELS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- EU foreign
policy chief Javier Solana said in Luxembourg on Monday that he could not
guarantee his forthcoming talks with Iran would be a success, but he would like
to try again to break the impasse over the country's nuclear program.
Solana will meet with Iran's top nuclear negotiator
Ali Larijani on Wednesday in Turkey in a bid to persuade Iran to stop uranium
enrichment and return to the negotiating table. Full story
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