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    Iran urges Azerbaijan to release Russian nuclear equipment

    13:54 | 27/ 04/ 2008


    TEHRAN, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has urged Azerbaijan to release a
    Russian shipment of nuclear equipment for Iran's first nuclear power
    plant, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

    A column of vehicles carrying heat insulators for the Bushehr nuclear
    power plant, which the Russian contractor, Atomstroyexport, is building
    in the southwest of the Islamic Republic, was stopped at the border
    between Azerbaijan and Iran in late March.

    "The Russian side is seeking to solve the problem as soon as possible
    within its competence. On our part, we have asked Azerbaijan's
    ambassador in Tehran to take measures for the delivery of the
    consignment to Iran," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali
    Hosseini said.

    The Iranian diplomat said the shipment of the nuclear power equipment
    complied with international law and there was no ban regarding the
    consignment.

    Azeri customs officials earlier said the cargo needed a special permit,
    which the Russian contractor had failed to supply.

    Iran is currently under three sets of UN sanctions over its uranium
    program. The latest resolution against Iran froze accounts of certain
    Iranian companies and banks, and introduced inspections for goods
    leaving and entering the Islamic Republic.

    Russia delivered its final and eighth fuel shipment to Bushehr on
    January 28. Russia has supplied a total of 82 metric tons of
    low-enriched uranium to the light-water nuclear power plant. Iran hopes
    its first nuclear power plant will be launched in October.
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