Iran sees progress in Russia nuclear talks
Monday, 17 September 2007
TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP): Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said talks with Russia over the much delayed completion of Iran's first nuclear power station are making progress, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
"The question of the Bushehr nuclear power station was raised and we see progress in the negotiations," said Mottaki, referring to his visit last week to Moscow for talks on the atomic plant with Russian officials.
Russia, which is building the power plant in the southern Iranian city, has warned it will not be completed until 2008 at the earliest owing to a series of delays attributed by the Russians to late Iranian payments.
Sergei Shmatko, chief of Russia's Atomstroiexport company which is constructing Bushehr, said after his meeting with Mottaki in Moscow that "negotiations continue and they are held in constructive manner."
"The question of the Bushehr nuclear power station was raised and we see progress in the negotiations," said Mottaki, referring to his visit last week to Moscow for talks on the atomic plant with Russian officials.
Russia, which is building the power plant in the southern Iranian city, has warned it will not be completed until 2008 at the earliest owing to a series of delays attributed by the Russians to late Iranian payments.
Sergei Shmatko, chief of Russia's Atomstroiexport company which is constructing Bushehr, said after his meeting with Mottaki in Moscow that "negotiations continue and they are held in constructive manner."