Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his country was ready to play a "constructive and positive" role in breaking the stalemate over the nuclear fuel swap deal, Iran's Press TV reported on Tuesday.
The UN-sponsored deal to supply nuclear fuel for a research reactor in Tehran proposes Iran ship out low-enriched uranium to be processed into higher-grade nuclear fuel and then returned to Iran.
However, the deal stalled over Iran's insistence that it will accept nothing less than a simultaneous exchange inside the Islamic republic, saying it had not received guarantees the fuel would actually be delivered.
Ahmadinejad's offer came in talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Monday on the sidelines of the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Concerning Iran's cooperation with Europe, Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready to cooperate with the European Union on a wide range of issues.
MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
