TEHERAN, October 3 (RIA Novosti's Nikolai Terekhov) - The commissioning of the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant Unit One has been postponed, alleged certain Western-based media outlets. Hamid Reza Assefi, official spokesman of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, denied the news.
"We had negotiations with Russia on that score. It pledged to finish the works on schedule, and we expect it so," he said to a media audience today.
Physical commissioning of Unit One was scheduled for next year, and exploitation is to start in 2006.
IAEA experts are to appear in Teheran within a few days to settle issues remaining on the Iranian nuclear programme agenda, added Mr. Assefi.
"Negotiations with Agency experts, who are to appear quite soon, will help to settle certain minor problems of Iranian nuclear programmes," he said.
As for a schedule to recommence uranium enrichment, the diplomat said the works have not restarted for now, and Iran will eventually announce a deadline.
