Iran Expects Russia To Supply Fuel For Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant By End Of Month

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15:54 | 11/ 03/ 2007

TEHRAN, March 11 (RIA Novosti) - Iran expects Russia to supply nuclear fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant by the end of March, despite disagreements over the financing of the plant's construction, an Iranian official said Sunday.

Russian specialists are completing the construction of Iran's first NPP under a $1 billion contract signed in 1995, but Russia claimed last month that Iran had an unpaid debt for its construction services, and said that as a result construction might take longer than previously expected.

The Russia-Iran talks held in Moscow March 7-9 on Tehran's outstanding debt for the Bushehr NPP construction produced no positive results.

But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Iran is implementing its obligations in full and hopes Russia will also abide by its obligations and supply nuclear fuel within the specified time limits.

According to Hosseini, the fuel should be supplied in the next two weeks in compliance with the agreement reached earlier.

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