TEHRAN, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Iran welcomed Monday Europe's announcement that it is ready to resume negotiations with Tehran over its uranium enrichment as a "positive step."
Secretary General of the Higher National Security Council Ali Larijani said according to the Iranian News Agency, IRNA, "The focus of the negotiations is to make sure there is no deviation in enrichment. We are seeking a constructive dialogue to agree on a method for an acceptable solution."
He stressed that Iran "is determined to hold serious and acceptable negotiations which should focus on essential issues which are points of contention."
"We do not want to tackle marginal or fringe matters in the negotiations, such as granting economic privileges and other issues of that sort," Larijani said.
He said the issue of negotiations is enrichment, "and we want to be certain about possessing the nuclear fuel cycle because possessing such a nuclear technology is an important subject for Iran."
Larijani pointed out that negotiations might start in two weeks at the level of experts.
He stressed that Iran will give the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, all the answers to its questions within the framework of the law "in order that it would be assured that Iran wants peaceful nuclear technology."
