BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Monday that he hopes to travel to Iran soon to present a new nuclear offer from major world powers, after meeting Tehran’s foreign minister over the weekend.

“I still don’t have a date but it will be soon I hope. I met (minister Manuchehr) Mottaki in Lebanon yesterday (Sunday),” he told reporters as he arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
“We have a new proposal. I would like very much to present it to them,” Solana said.
In an effort to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, permanent Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany have re-worked an offer of incentives originally made in 2006.
However Iran insists it has the right to enrich uranium to make nuclear fuel to help meet its electricity needs.
Iran has also offered a counterproposal and presented it to different countries including some 5+1 countries, the current EU president, the UN chief and the Security Council president.
In its package of proposals Iran has suggested solutions to global security problems as well as a threat of nuclear weapons proliferation.