By IRNA,
Berlin : The German government on Wednesday stressed that the Turkish-Brazilian nuclear fuel swap agreement with Iran was not “off the table.”
Speaking at a routine weekly press briefing in Berlin, foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said that the Tehran nuclear fuel exchange deal was only “a small facet of the whole Iranian atomic program” aimed at confidence-building.
“This complex is not off the table,” he added.
Peschke said he was sill awaiting the answer of the so-called Vienna group, composed of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other countries, including the US, Russia and France, involved in the issue.
“I think this discussion process has not ended yet,” Peschke said.
Iran, Brazil and Turkey agreed last month to sign a nuclear fuel swap that would send low-enriched Iranian uranium to Ankara in exchange for enriched reactor fuel.