Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on Sunday urged the European Union (EU) to offer a nuclear proposal which secures Iran's right to continue uranium enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"If Europe's proposal does not enshrine uranium enrichment, it will not be acceptable to Iran," Kharrazi was quoted as saying on the sidelines of an international conference on UN reforms, which was sponsored by Iran's Foreign Ministry.

Kharrazi said Iran would take its "own decision" if the EU still asked Tehran to give up uranium enrichment in a proposal purportedly to be offered next month.

"The details of the proposal have not been disclosed yet. We are in contact with the Europeans and we are to hold a meeting to discuss the proposal," Kharrazi said.

He reiterated that the country's policies on nuclear issue will not undergo any change after the next government takes office.

Europe, the longtime broker of the Iranian nuclear issue, has been trying to encourage Tehran to permanently halt its uranium enrichment activities, which the latter suspended last November to avoid a referral of its nuclear case to the UN Security Council.

The European trio of Britain, France, Germany, which have been negotiating with Iran on behalf of the union, hopes to offer a package of economic and political incentives to Tehran in exchange for its compromise.

However, Iran insists that it never give up legal rights for any incentives.

The current nuclear talks had reached a deadlock due to uncompromising stances of the two sides for several months before they agreed to actually suspend the negotiations for two months in late May.

The suspension was believed to be for the result of Iran's ninth presidential election held in late June.

Hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won the election and is scheduled to be sworn in on Aug. 4, took a tough stance on nuclear issue soon after his victory.

The United States has accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, calling for referring Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council.

Terming the accusation as politically motivated, Tehran insists that as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it enjoy natural rights secured by the treaty.

Source: Xinhua