Vienna - Multilateral talks in Vienna on sending Iran's nuclear fuel abroad for processing were "off to a good start," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said after the Monday's session ended. "Most of the technical issues have been discussed," ElBaradei said, adding that the meeting between Iran, Russia, France, the US and the IAEA was "quite constructive" and would be continued Tuesday.
For Western countries and Russia, exporting most of Iran's enriched uranium to Russia and France, enriching it to a higher level and sending it back to Tehran would be an important confidence- building measure that would help push along wider-ranging nuclear talks with Iran.
Iran's Press TV channel reported earlier that France had been removed from the list of potential suppliers of enriched uranium to Iran, but a diplomat told the German Press Agency
