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Iran does not accept "Indefinite" enrichment suspension

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Paris, Nov 5, IRNA -- Iran`s suspension of uranium enrichment is 
negotiable only for confidence-building but not for an indefinite 
period, said an Iranian official. 
"Islamic Republic rejects any suspension which obliges the country
to terminate its peaceful nuclear programme," head of Supreme National
Security Council`s foreign policy committee Hossein Mousavian told 
IRNA on Thursday. 
"EU3 (Germany, France and UK) expressed their readiness to 
recognize Iran`s right to accessing nuclear technology," he said, 
adding that now indefinite suspension is not among the subjects to 
be discussed. 
On the new round of nuclear talks with EU3, Mousavian predicted 
that the negotiation will be very complicated. He was however 
optimistic that the talks with European Union would yield a solution 
to the dispute over Tehran`s dossier. 
"Europeans offered a new proposal last week and we have prepared 
our own proposal which are to be surveyed Friday," he said. 
"Till September 2003, the main issue was the previous nuclear 
activities of Iran," he said, adding that the country was accused of 
covert operations and going beyond peaceful nuclear operation. 
Iranian official said that major concerns have been dispelled 
through the policies that Iran has adopted over the past year. 
"Western countries know that the accusation made against Iran on 
nuclear bombs has been false," he said. 
"We have always been insisting on our natural right to enjoy 
fuel-cycle system," he noted. 
He added that Iran`s legitimate right is in line with NPT protocol
and it should not be ignored in the upcoming negotiation. 
Asked on the effect of US election on Iran, Mousavian said that 
total US strategy will not change by presidential election. 
"Iran-US ties have been faced with basic problems with either 
democrats or republicans," he said. 
Iranian delegation arrived in Paris on Thursday to begin third 
round of talks with European envoys at French Foreign Ministry on 
Friday about Iran`s nuclear program. 
Paris meeting which follows two rounds of Iran-EU talks in Vienna,
Austria, is to focus on an agreement on the issue. 
Iran has put all its nuclear sites under systematic monitoring 
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in line with the 
additional Protocol to Non-Proliferation Treaty it signed last 
December. 
The Europeans offered to supply Iran with fuel for power plants, 
but, Iran does not consider import of fuel economical when it has 
established fuel-cycle system under the IAEA safeguards. 
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