European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Commissioner Javier Solana on Friday urged Iran not to resume its widely concerned nuclear program, but to accept the EU proposal on resolving the standoff over the issue.

Solana, who was vacationing in Bueu, Spain, made the call after European negotiators handed Iran the long-awaited proposal, offering trade incentives, political and security cooperation and the possibility for Tehran to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes.

The EU foreign policy chief told reporters that the EU on Friday handed over to Teheran a "very important document with a thorough offer to guarantee all its rights in the nuclear area, for we should not forget they have them."

Tehran threatened on Monday to resume work at a uranium conversion plant near the central city of Isfahan as the EU trio -- France, Britain and Germany -- failed to present the proposal by an Aug. 1 deadline.

The EU trio had previously promised to offer Iran a package of economic, political and technological incentives by the deadline in exchange for its agreement to abandon the program for enriched uranium, which could be used to make atomic bombs.

Solana said Brussels has the intention of "keeping the balance reached with Iran on the nuclear issue."

He explained that the EU had worked out the proposal since European and Iranian representatives held their last formal meeting on May 29, but had been awaiting the election results in the West Asian country. .

Source: Xinhua