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Question: The European three have submitted a new draft resolution on Iran, including a number of sanctions, particularly regarding nuclear cooperation. It says this does not affect Bushehr. Will Russia support this resolution?

Foreign Minister Lavrov: The draft resolution you mentioned has just appeared. We are studying it. We will study it based on our position which is, above all, that it's necessary to establish conditions for a negotiated solution to the Iranian problem, a solution which would secure a nonviolation of the nonproliferation regime, on one hand, and ensure the lawful rights of all bona fide members of the NPT to peaceful use of nuclear energy, on the other.

IAEA, which is a key player in this process, a professional player, still has a number of questions about certain aspects of Iran's nuclear program, and until the clarification of these questions, we will be ready to discuss ways of nonsupply to Iran of sensitive technologies related to uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing, that is on the themes, regarding which IAEA inspectors still have questions.

But our goal is to eliminate the risks of sensitive technologies getting into the hands of Iran until the IAEA clarifies the issues of interest to it, while maintaining all possible channels of communication with Iran. It seems to me that, in this context, the draft resolution presented clearly fails to match those tasks the six nations agreed on. So we shall see what the outcome is.