Friday, July 14 2006 18:32 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

United Nations: A package of incentives offered to Iran if it agrees to suspend uranium enrichment has been released for the first time and revealed that world powers are prepared to provide Tehran with advanced technology and possibly even nuclear research reactors.

The package which was put together by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany was given to the Iranians on June 6 and some details were leaked at the time, but the full proposal showed a broader range of economic, political and energy incentives. It was released late yesterday.

They include improving Iran's access to the global economy by promoting investment, Tehran's membership in the World Trade Organisation, and the possible lifting of US and European restrictions on the export of civilian aircraft and telecommunications equipment.

The proposal was sent to the 15 members of the UN Security Council a day after foreign ministers of the six countries that offered the package met in Paris to discuss Iran's failure to respond after five weeks.

The three-page incentives proposals confirmed reports that the six powers are prepared to help Iran build state-of-the- art light water nuclear power reactors and to give legally-binding guarentees that nuclear fuel will be provided to these civilian reactors meant to produce energy.