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By Francois Murphy
VIENNA (Reuters) - A team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog is in Tehran for talks on gaining better cooperation from Iran before the United States, France, Britain and Germany push to refer it to the U.N. Security Council, diplomats say.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei has demanded better access to sites, documents and individuals in the IAEA's investigation of whether Iran's nuclear programme is peaceful as it says it is or a front for making nuclear weapons as Washington charges.
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PARIS (Agencies) -- Russia's foreign minister urged the international community Tuesday to consider Iran's legal right to peaceful nuclear programs, RIA Novosti reported.
"We agreed today that there is unity on the ultimate goal - nuclear nonproliferation," Sergei Lavrov said in Paris following a session of the Russian-French security council, attended by the Russian and French foreign and defense ministers.
"We should take into consideration and respond to Iran's legal interests in peaceful nuclear energy within the sphere of economic development," Lavrov said, adding that Iran should be treated as a full member of the international community in regional and global developments.
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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei has demanded better access to sites, documents and individuals in the IAEA's investigation of whether Iran's nuclear programme is peaceful as it says it is or a front for making nuclear weapons as Washington charges.
Iran invited ElBaradei at the last IAEA board meeting to visit Tehran to discuss how it could "enhance" its cooperation with the agency, but diplomats said he would not accept the invitation unless some deal were reached beforehand.