Iran said it could negotiate a solution to its dispute with Russia about building its first nuclear power plant, and Moscow promised to keep the project alive despite scarce financing, the Reuters news agency reports.
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March 14, 2007The launch of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, which Russia is building, would be postponed the Xinhua news agency reported on Monday quoting a statement by the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom). The statement named Iranian delays in payment as reason for the move.
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A Russian delegation comprising officials and experts of Atomstroiexport, the company that is building the Bushehr nuclear power plant, arrived Monday in Tehran to settle a dispute over an alleged default in payment by Iran for the plant, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.
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March 12, 2007Vladimir Putin has decided to delay the completion of Iran’s first nuclear reactor. The Middle East Newsline said the move appears to be in coordination with the United States.
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Russia hailed changes to a European draft resolution urging UN sanctions to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment but objected to a proposed travel ban on officials linked to Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs, AFP news agency reports.
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December 12, 2006
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the revised draft of a UN Security Council resolution to punish Iran over its nuclear program would not disrupt Russia’s construction of an atomic energy plant in Iran, news agencies reported Monday.
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December 11, 2006The head of Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom will visit Iran on December 11 to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries.
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November 27, 2006Russian changes to a draft UN resolution on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs would “cut back substantially†from restrictions the U.S. and its allies are seeking, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
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November 15, 2006Six major powers are set to resume attempts to agree on how to censure Iran for refusing to suspend sensitive nuclear fuel work as Russia hinted Tehran might be willing to return to negotiations, AFP reports.
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Top Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani states Iran would overview its cooperation with international nuclear inspectors if punitive UN sanctions are imposed, Agence France Presse reported Friday.
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November 10, 2006
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