No new date has yet been set for nuclear talks between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, ISNA news agency reported Sunday, according to dpa. Jalili's deputy Javad Vaeidi told ISNA that the meeting between the two sides was on the agenda but no date had yet been fixed. Vaeidi refrained from saying whether the meeting would be held before or after the mid-November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board meeting but noted that also other diplomatic efforts were under way. He gave no details. He termed the current cooperation between Iran and the IAEA as "very serious and active" but warned that a third United Nations Security Council resolution could "seriously harm" this cooperation process. Within a so-called work plan, Iran and the IAEA have been cooperating since last August to remove all technical ambiguities over Iran's nuclear projects. The results of the IAEA talks with Iran will be compiled within a report and presented to the IAEA board of governors next week. The IAEA report is considered the main criterion for world powers to decide whether to issue a third resolution, including harsher financial sanctions, or give Solana the chance to continue his talks with Jalili to find a diplomatic settlement. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran's nuclear programme was a "one-way road" and not even UN resolutions could make the country retreat from its programmes. He further said that Iran already possessed over 3,000 centrifuges, refraining however from disclosing how many are operating. Iran says that its nuclear programmes are just for civilian and peaceful purposes, with enrichment levels at a maximum of only 5 per cent to produce nuclear fuel for its reactors. The international community fears that Iran might use the very same process, but at a higher enrichment level, to make atomic bombs. The West also argues that as Iran has no nuclear reactors yet - and even the joint plant with Russia in southern Iran is not yet completed - the country had no imminent need for nuclear fuel and hence no justification for uranium enrichment.
