VLADIMIR PUTIN: IRAN’S BUSHEHR NUCLEAR POWER TO BE LAUNCHED THIS SUMMER

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.03.2010 12:58 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that
Iran’s first nuclear power plant is due to come online this summer.

Putin made his remarks at a meeting on nuclear-industry matters today
in the southern Russian city of Volgodonsk, RFE/RL reported.

Russia has been helping Iran build the facility near the southern
Iranian city of Bushehr since the mid-1990s, but its launch has been
slowed by several delay

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a visit to Moscow on Thursday
warned Russia against launching the plant until Tehran proves that
it’s not pursuing atomic weapons.

"If it reassures the world, or if its behavior is changed because of
international sanctions, then they can pursue peaceful, civil nuclear
power. In the absence of those reassurances, we think it would be
premature to go forward with any project at this time, because we want
to send an unequivocal message to the Iranians," she said at a briefing
following her talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.