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Iran given 2 weeks to answer nuke queries

Ahmadinejad says talks a 'step forward'

AFP, Tehran
Iran was yesterday facing a two-week deadline to give a final answer to world powers seeking a breakthrough in the nuclear crisis, after talks with the EU foreign policy chief ended in stalemate.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana hailed their latest talks in Geneva on Saturday as “constructive" but Solana lamented that Tehran had still not given a final response.
Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad described the talks as a "step forward" in the nuclear standoff, which has raised fears of regional conflict and sent oil prices spiralling.
"All negotiations are a step forward and the negotiations yesterday were negotiations that were a step forward," said Ahmadinejad, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Solana, who presented Iran with a major package aimed at ending the standoff on behalf of world powers last month, said he was
SEE PAGE 15 COL 7 waiting for a decision fromTeliran on an initial deal to start prenegotiations.
This would see world powers promising not to impose funner UN Security’ Council resolutions against Tehran, in exchange for Iran not installing any more uranium-enrichingcentrifuges. he said.
“We have not got an answer to the most important issue... we are looking forward to an answer to these questions in a couple of weeks," said Solana.
Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Kisliak, who attended the talks, was quoted by the Ria-Novosti news agency as saying that he too expected a response from Iran in two weeks.
' During his visit to Tehran, Mr Solana presented a text on the framework ot negotiations. We have examined this proposal," said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in apparent reference to die so-called "ireeze-for- freeze" offer
bi a major development, the talks were also attended by the third most senior diplomat from the United States, die first time Washington has had direct contact over the nuclear standoffwi th Ibhran
However the United States warned Iran would face "confrontation' -an implicit warning of further sanctions -- if it failed to suspend uranium enrichment, which the west fears could be used to make a nuclear wea pon.