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Iran's top nuclear negotiator to hold talks in Moscow Nov. 10

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Iran's top nuclear negotiator will hold talks on the country's nuclear problem in Moscow on November 10, Iranian news agency ISNA said Wednesday.
TEHRAN/MOSCOW, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's top nuclear negotiator will hold talks on the country's nuclear problem in Moscow on November 10, Iranian news agency ISNA said Wednesday.

Ali Larijani will meet with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, the agency said.

Following Iran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment, European powers have proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution on sanctions against the country, which the United States wants toughened, but which Russia and China want reduced.

Iran has been at the center of an international controversy over its uranium enrichment work, which some countries suspect is a cover for a nuclear weapons program.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that the working visit to Moscow of another Iranian diplomat for talks on the nuclear issue has been postponed. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was expected to visit the Russian capital on November 9-10.

Two weeks ago, the EU-3 - Britain, France and Germany - proposed a set of sanctions against Iran, which includes banning sales of missile and nuclear technologies to the country, freezing its military bank accounts, and imposing visa restrictions on officials linked to the nuclear industry.

Russia has consistently supported Iran's right to nuclear power under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and is building a $1 bln nuclear power plant in the country.

The Bushehr NPP would not be banned under the EU-3 draft resolution, but nuclear fuel supplies to the plant would be restricted, a proposal that Russia wants removed from the document.

Last Friday Russia proposed its amendments to draft.

On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that as long as the resolution focuses on measures to prevent the transfer of nuclear-related technologies (uranium enrichment, heavy-water reactors, nuclear fuel reprocessing), "we could quickly agree on the text of the resolution, provided the measures have a clear-cut time frame and a mechanism for lifting these measures is spelled out. This should also be linked with Iran's consent to IAEA terms."

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