RUSSIA TO PUT IRAN NUKE PLANT ON LINE IN 2008

Bushehr power plant to be put into operation early in 2008-Russia
BAKU, July 26 (Itar-Tass) - The nuclear power station in Bushehr, being built in Iran by Russian specialists, will be put into operation early in 2008, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said in an interview with Itar-Tass in Baku on Thursday after consultations with his Azerbaijan counterpart Araz Azimov.

“Russia is fully determined to bring the construction in Bushehr to its logical end by putting into operation the nuclear power station,” Kislyak said. According to the Russian diplomat, “the question which delayed the commissioning of the Bushehr station is of economic and technical rather than of political nature”.