EU, Iran discuss nuclear incentives package

Asefi said Iran won't give a response at once to the package incentives designed to end the standoff caused by its nuclear program, citing the complexity of the proposals.

Photo: EU, Iran discuss nuclear incentives package

In Brussels, top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani declined to talk to reporters as he went into a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

Solana was hoping for a positive reply from Larijani on the offer of economic and trade rewards as well as nuclear expertise and reactors in exchange for a pledge by Iran to suspend uranium enrichment activities during nuclear talks.

But EU officials have said they anticipated Larijani may submit a counterproposal of his own Tuesday, the AP reports.

Solana is to present Iran's answer Wednesday in Paris at a conference with foreign ministers of the six nations that drafted the offer - the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, according to the AP.