Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency says any talks with world powers will not address Iran's controversial nuclear program.
Iranian media on Thursday quote Ali Asghar Soltanieh as saying Iran is prepared to hold talks on such issues as the peaceful use of nuclear energy and preventing nuclear arms proliferation. He says Iran will continue enriching uranium.
Soltanieh made his comments at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
On Wednesday, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki handed over a new Iranian nuclear proposal to representatives of the European Union and six world powers discussing Iran's nuclear program - the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany.
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