'Turkey may be site of nuke swap'

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'Turkey may be site of nuke swap'
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
16/05/2010 23:21
Erdogan joins da Silva's attempts to return Iran to negotiations.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested Sunday before departing for Teheran to join talks on Iran's nuclear program that the uranium swap could take place in Turkey. "We will find the opportunity to start the swap process. That is why I am leaving," he told reporters. "If the swap is going to take place in Turkey, we thought we should be there too. We have heard that a clause is being added." "God willing, we will find the opportunity to overcome the problem," he said. Turkey's Erdogan will join Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in efforts to bring Teheran back to negotiations on a one-time UN-backed proposal it effectively rejected, in which Iran would ship its stockpile of enriched uranium abroad to be processed further and returned as fuel rods that could not be enriched to military-use levels, which are suitable for use in the Teheran research reactor.

Brazil and Turkey may be competing over which of the countries will have the role of enriching Iran's nuclear material. However, there is no guarantee yet the world powers negotiating with Iran: the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany - will accept the terms worked out in Teheran.

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Erdogan lands in Iran, to join nuclear negotiations - Israel News, Ynetnews

Erdogan lands in Iran, to join nuclear negotiations
Published: 05.16.10, 23:21 / Israel News

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdigan landed in the Tehran airport, the IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. Erdogan is expected to join the efforts of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in persuading Iran to accept a uranium exchange deal with the West. (Dudi Cohen)