EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA WILL VISIT TEHRAN SHORTLY TO DISCUSS DETAILS OF A PACKAGE AIMED AT PERSUADING THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC TO ABANDON ITS NUCLEAR FUEL PROGRAMME, A SENIOR OFFICIAL SAID ON SUNDAY, ACCORDING TO REUTERS. SOLANA DELIVERED THE PACKAGE, WHICH IS BACKED BY THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, FRANCE, GERMANY, RUSSIA AND CHINA, IN A VISIT TO TEHRAN EARLIER THIS MONTH. HE HAS SAID HE WILL HOLD FURTHER DISCUSSIONS OVER WHAT IRAN HAS DESCRIBED AS "AMBIGUITIES". "SOLANA'S VISIT TO IRAN IS IMMINENT. WE WILL DISCUSS THE OFFERED PACKAGE," ALI LARIJANI, IRAN'S CHIEF NUCLEAR NEGOTIATOR, WAS QUOTED BY THE OFFICIAL IRNA NEWS AGENCY AS SAYING AFTER MEETING VISITING TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER ABDULLAH GUL. LARIJANI DID NOT SPECIFY THE TIMING OF SOLANA'S VISIT AND REITERATED THAT ANY TALKS MUST BE "WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS".
