China hoped relevant parties could reach consensus through consultations on the issue of Iran's nuclear-fuel supply at an early date.

IAEA director general Mohamed El Baradei proposed a draft agreement over nuclear-fuel needed for a research reactor in Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu. "We hope relevant parties could reach consensus through consultations on this issue at an early date."

Representatives from Iran, the United States, Russia, France and the IAEA met in Vienna from Monday to Wednesday to discuss the nuclear-fuel supply for a research reactor in the Iranian capital of Tehran. The four countries agreed to conduct a feasibility review of proposals advanced by El Baradei.

State-owned Arabic language Al-Alam TV reported Tuesday that Iran will accept the framework of a nuclear deal proposed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) but wants significant changes into it.

Iran will announce its decision within the next 48 hours on the UN-drafted deal for Tehran to send low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing, the report quoted an informed source close to the negotiating team as saying.

Iran accepts the framework of the deal, but its response "will contain significant changes in the draft agreement," the informed source said.

The draft agreement, presented by the IAEA, calls for shipping most of Iran's existing low-grade enriched uranium to Russia and France, where it would be processed into fuel rods with a purity of 20 percent.

The higher-level enriched uranium would be transported back to Iran to be used in a research reactor in Tehran for the manufacture of medical radioisotopes.

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