Iran says it will take a positive view of the US backed proposal on Nuclear Swap as a step towards building trust with Washington, provided the enriched uranium exchange takes place in Teheran. The visiting Iranian Foreign Minister, in an interview to the daily Hindu, said that his country is not keen to send its own nuclear fuel out of the country before it receives fuel for the Teheran Research Reactor. Iran maintains that its nuclear rights are non-negotiable and the activities carried out by Iranian Nuclear Corporation are within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency.<br/> <br/>The Iranian foreign minister Mr. Manouchehr Mottaki held detailed discussions with his Indian counterpart Mr. S M Krishna on whole gamut of bilateral relations. Official sources said in New Delhi that Terrorism emanating from Pakistan and Afghanistan and the danger it poses to the region was discussed in the meeting with both having convergence of view on the need for concerted action against it. The proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline was also discussed along with a host of other issues like banking and collaboration in infrastructural projects during the talks. Mr. Mottaki's two-day visit marked the first high level contact between the two countries since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected in July. While discussing energy issues, the Indian side flagged its interest in the 7.4 billion USD IPI pipeline but wanted aspects like security and pricing to be sorted out. <br/><br/>The two sides will be discussing such aspects in detail during the meeting of Joint Working Group on Energy to be convened soon. AIR correspondent reports that the two countries also discussed various other collaborative projects like development of an integrated port-road-rail infrastructure to provide transit access to India from Chabahar to central Asia.<br/><br/>
News On AIR | November 17, 2009 7:46 PM
India, Iran call for concerted action against terror threat from Pakistan & Afghanistan