(AGI) - Teheran, 5 Oct. - Russian foreign minister Serghei Lavrov reported that on occasion of last Thursday's talks in Geneva a preliminary agreement was reached with the USA, France and IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) to enrich uranium allocated for a research nuclear reactor located in Teheran. "A scheme has been processed to allow the use of already processed slightly enriched uranium in Iran and to turn it into fuel in Russia". Lavrov was quoted by Interfax agency.
  The fuel would then be transformed into pills in France or Argentina and then delivered to Iran, ready for use in the nuclear reactor. Lavrov stated that "soon there will be a meeting of experts to carry out this scheme". This would allow to meet the objective need to supply enriched uranium to "a totally legitimate reactor which under IAEA supervision produces isotopes for industrial medicine. The reactor is about to run out of enriched uranium and it needs to be replaced". In the meantime, Iran guaranteed that it will maintain a 'positive' approach to the next round of '5+1' talks on its nuclear programme that is scheduled for late October. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hassan Ghashghavi emphasised that "negotiations are moving on" and this proves that "there is something to talk about in the future", even though he pointed out that Iran's atomic programme has peaceful purposes. White House national security advisor Jim Jones acknowledged the importance of having "Iran now ready to join talks".