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QUESTION: The meeting coming up, the technical talks in Vienna about the low-enriched uranium - who is the U.S. sending, and how far do you expect to get in those meetings? What's the sort of agenda and hopes for an outcome?

MR. CROWLEY: Well, it's - we haven't decided. Those arrangements are still being worked as to what the representation will be.

QUESTION: You don't know who's going?

MR. CROWLEY: We haven't decided yet.

QUESTION: Isn't it coming up?

MR. CROWLEY: Huh? On the 19th.

QUESTION: Okay.

MR. CROWLEY: These are technical talks, really, to work through the practical issues of how to ship the fuel out of Iran, and then provide the fuel that - for this research reactor. So - but we haven't decided yet. Those specific arrangements are still being worked.

QUESTION: But your understanding is that the Iranians are going forward with this, you know, a hundred percent. That you're - it's actually just about implementing it right now, or is that sort of talks about in theory how it would work?

MR. CROWLEY: I mean, I'd defer to my colleague Robert, who was in Geneva. I mean, there are - this is a confidence-building measure. There is the research reactor. It's running out of fuel. And we think there's a mechanism that can be put in place so that we can see that the shipment out of some of the existing Iranian stocks and then fuel for this particular reactor provided. I mean, it really is about working through the technical aspects of this. And - but we are - we believe that the meeting will go forward on October 19, and we're working through the appropriate representation.

QUESTION: Well, speaking of that, I'm confused, and I'm willing to say that I'm the one that's confused. I thought this meeting coming up was in Vienna and had only the Iranians, French, and Russians being represented. And --

MR. CROWLEY: I think we're prepared to --

QUESTION: -- everybody, all the P-5+1?

MR. CROWLEY: We'll be part of it.

QUESTION: Okay.

MR. CROWLEY: I mean, in terms of who will be specifically engaged in the arrangement, that could be the case. But in terms of being able to participate in the meeting and work through some of the technical issues involved, we plan to be there.

QUESTION: Well, the Iranians agreed to meet again before the end of the month, I think, outside of these technical talks at the political directors level; isn't that right?

MR. CROWLEY: I don't know that a particular date is --

QUESTION: Yet.

MR. CROWLEY: -- has been set yet. But it is our expectation --

QUESTION: (Inaudible.)

MR. CROWLEY: -- we have - the international inspectors will be in Iran on October 25th to look at the newly disclosed site, and that it is our hope that there would be a meeting soon after that, perhaps by the end of the month, to follow up on the meeting in Geneva.

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