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MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) - Insufficient payments from Iran for the construction of the country's first nuclear power station are delaying its completion by Russia, a top Russian nuclear official has said.The head of Russia's federal agency for atomic energy Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, said the timetable for Russian contractors to complete the Bushehr plant in the south of Iran would depend on timely and full payments.'When the payments are adequate, work is not interrupted,' Kiriyenko was quoted by a spokesman as saying. 'For the moment I would not call them adequate.'For now it is premature to talk of a specific time frame for the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power station,' Kiriyenko said.The completion of the power station, which is 95 pct ready, and the delivery of nuclear fuel by Russia, planned for this year, have been delayed by what Moscow described earlier as financial problems.Iran has been under pressure from the US and the EU to freeze its civilian nuclear programme and Washington has called on Moscow to halt construction of Bushehr.tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.comafp/wjCOPYRIGHTCopyright AFX News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News.
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Russia hopes to conclude Iran nuclear plant negotiations next week 