Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reiterated the country's determination to continue its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the official IRNA news agency reported.

"Iran will continue the cooperation with the agency within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as usual," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

On late Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry issued an official statement, announcing that Tehran was prepared to restart nuclear negotiations with the IAEA and all of its members, including the European Union (EU), without any predictions.

The statement, quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency on Wednesday, also said that Tehran would seek to observe "a balanced approach to rights and commitments and to welcome the negotiations under the current circumstances".

The nuclear negotiations between Iran and the EU have been stalled since Tehran in early August defiantly resumed its highly sensitive uranium conversion activities, the preparatory step for uranium enrichment, which has also bring the Iranian nuclear issue to a radical deadlock.

The IAEA on Sept. 24 adopted a resolution drafted by the EU, which urged Iran to fully suspend all of its activities related to uranium enrichment before November and warned of referring the case to the UN Security Council otherwise.

Source: Xinhua