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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Iranian Sources Deny Trilateral Meeting among Iran, Brazil, Turkey on N. Fuel Swap

Sources Deny Trilateral Meeting among Iran, Brazil, Turkey on N. Fuel Swap
News number: 890226122317:38 | 2010-05-16Nuclear
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902261223

TEHRAN (FNA)- Informed sources denied reports by Iranian and foreign media
outlets that Iran has held a trilateral meeting with Brazil and Turkey on
Sunday to discuss ways to supply nuclear fuel to its Tehran research
reactor.

"No trilateral meeting has been held among Iranian Foreign Minister
Manouchehr Mottaki and his Brazilian and Turkish counterparts Celso Luiz
Nunes Amorim and Ahmet Davutoglu on the issue of the nuclear fuel swap on
Sunday morning," informed sources told FNA.

A number of Iranian and Turkish media outlets had earlier alleged that
Iranian, Brazilian and Turkish foreign ministers had attended a meeting to
discuss the nuclear fuel swap immediately after Davutoglu arrived in Tehran
to attend a G-15 summit.

Earlier in April, Amorim had said during a visit to Tehran that his country
could "examine" hosting the fuel swap if requested by Iran.

He also said that Brazil could act as a "political guarantor" for the deal.

Davutoglu arrived in Iran Sunday morning as the special guest of the 14th
summit of the G-15 due to be held in Tehran on Monday.

After Iran announced to the IAEA that it had run out of nuclear fuel for its
research reactor in Tehran, the Agency proposed a deal according to which
Iran would send 3.5%-enriched uranium and receive 20%-enriched uranium from
potential suppliers in return, all through the UN nuclear watchdog agency.

The proposal was first introduced on October 1, when Iranian representatives
and diplomats from the Group 5+1 held high-level talks in Geneva.

But France and the United States, as potential suppliers, stalled the talks
soon after the start. They offered a deal which would keep Tehran waiting
for months before it can obtain the fuel, a luxury of time that Iran cannot
afford as it is about to run out of 20-percent-enriched uranium.

The Iranian lawmakers rejected the proposed deal after technical studies
showed that it would only take two to three months for any country to
further enrich the nuclear stockpile and turn it into metal nuclear rods for
the Tehran Research Reactor, while suppliers had announced that they would
not return fuel to Iran any less than seven months.

Iran then put forward its own proposal that envisages a two-staged exchange.
According to Tehran's offer, the IAEA safeguards nearly one third of Iran's
uranium stockpile inside the Iranian territory for the time that it takes to
find a supplier.

Despite an 'all-or-nothing' response from the West, Iran's Foreign Minister
has frequently reiterated Tehran's continued readiness to resume
negotiations with the Group 5+1 to find a mutually acceptable method for the
swap.

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