Iran is to remove the seals on a uranium conversion site in the central city of Isfahan late in the day under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, a top nuclear negotiator announced on Monday.

"The seals of the Uranium Conversion Facility in Isfahan will be removed on Monday under full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts," Ali Aqamohammadi, spokesman of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told the official IRNA news agency.

Aqamohammadi said all of Iran's nuclear-related activities would be under the IAEA supervision and all of the uranium conversion products in Isfahan would also be kept under the agency's inspection.

The Isfahan facility is used to convert uranium ore nicknamed " yellowcake" to uranium hexafluoride gas which can be used for further enrichment.

Aqamohammadi further said that the hexafluoride products in the Isfahan facility would be given to a third country in return for receiving the "yellowcake" from that country, without elaborating on the so-called "third country" though.

Meanwhile, the negotiator voiced Iran's "complete readiness" for talks with Europe.

"We will continue suspension of uranium enrichment and hope the door for dialogue will continue to remain open," he said.

Aqamohammadi stressed that removing the seals on uranium conversion facility in Isfahan "had nothing to do with the uranium enrichment" and is not at all in violation of the Paris Agreement.

According to the agreement reached by the European Union and Iran in October 2004, Iran "temporarily" suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment in November.

However, the following bilateral negotiations failed to reach any further agreement on Iran's uranium enrichment program, a key process to build nuclear reactor.

Iran is currently pressing the EU to propose a comprehensive proposal to solve the Iranian nuclear issue, including a package of economic and political incentives, which the EU promised in late May in the latest round of nuclear negotiations to present in two months.

Earlier in the day, Iranian Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam- Ali Haddad Adel said that Iran's deadline for the EU to present nuclear proposal would expire at 17:00 (12:00 GMT) Monday and the country would resume part of its uranium enrichment activities soon.

Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, Mohammad- Mehdi Akhoundzadeh, also confirmed Monday afternoon that a letter had been submitted to IAEA officials to inform the agency of the resumption.

The EU has been trying to talk Iran out of its efforts to construct reactor, while Iran insists that it can never give up its legal rights, calling on Europe to accept and secure its rights on uranium enrichment activities.

Source: Xinhua