Iran's proposal to world powers aimed at resolving the standoff over its atomic program talks of global nuclear disarmament, a top Iranian official was quoted Thursday as saying, while insisting there will be no suspension of uranium enrichment.
"This proposal covers all issues of interests...non-proliferation, disarmament...and using technology for peaceful purpose," the conservative Jomhuri Eslami quoted Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's representative to International Atomic Energy Agency, as saying.
The paper said Soltanieh made the comments in an address to the IAEA's board members at their meeting in Vienna Wednesday.
Iran's policy, he stressed, "is not to have suspension [of uranium enrichment] and to fully go ahead with our undeniable right of using peaceful nuclear technology."
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Wednesday handed over its package of proposals to representatives of six world powers - the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany.
These nations, known as P5+1, are charged with negotiating with Iran to resolve the controversy over its atomic program, which the international community suspects is aimed at making nuclear weapons. Tehran denies these charges.
Details of Iran's proposals to P5+1 have not been made public.