Iran wants to continue talks with the European Union aimed at resolving the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear program provided they promise a tangible outcome, Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Thursday. "We will continue negotiations with the European side provided it will lead us somewhere tangible in a matter of time," he told reporters after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In a deal reached with Britain, Germany and France last November, Tehran agreed to suspend all nuclear fuel-related activities while both sides tried to negotiate a long-term solution regarding Iran's atomic ambitions.
But Iran, unhappy with the slow pace of talks, said it would resume some work related to enrichment, a process of purifying uranium to use in nuclear power plants or atomic weapons.
Kharrazi, who is in New York for a UN-sponsored nuclear disarmament conference, said Iran was "determined to continue with our nuclear program, which is only for producing fuel for power plants."
Before the meeting with Annan, he said the issue of whether or not Tehran would resume some enrichment-related work "is still being decided".
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