BRUSSELS - EU foreign police chief Javier Solana said Tuesday Iran's response to an international offer of incentives for it to stop uranium enrichment required careful analysis.
"The document is extensive and therefore requires a detailed and careful analysis," he said of Tehran's response, received earlier Tuesday, to representatives of the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany.
The so-called 5+1 group drew up the incentives package for Iran to renounce uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, and has set an August 31 deadline for Iran to agree or risk UN sanctions.
Solana said he would "remain in open contact" with Ali Larijani, Iran's nuclear negotiator.
The details of Tehran's response were not publicly released but Larijani said earlier Tuesday that Iran was "ready for serious talks with the 5+1 group from August 23 over the offered package".
Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful energy production and denies any clandestine effort to build nuclear weapons.
08/22/2006 19:16 GMT