Brussels, 01/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - Just five days from the decisive meeting of the Governing Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Iranian nuclear issue in Vienna on 6 March, Russian and Iranian diplomats sought, on Wednesday in Moscow, to reach agreement on the Russian compromise proposal (supported by the EU-3 - Germany, France and the United Kingdom) for partial relocation of Iran's uranium enrichment activities to Russia. Whereas, since the beginning of talks on 20 February, Teheran has been diffusing more and more encouraging declarations on a “common basis” or “an agreement of principle” concerning the creation of a Russian-Iranian joint venture on uranium enrichment for Iran and established on Russian soil, the Iranian officials still firmly refuse the moratorium on uranium enrichment demanded by Moscow (whereby Iran is to abstain from enrichment on its own territory). The main Iranian negotiator, Ali Larijani, refuses to make the moratorium a condition for settling the issue. “A moratorium is needed when there is danger but all our activities are transparent”, he explained on Wednesday morning while asserting that Iran accepted IAEA inspections. Although Russian-Iranian negotiations in Moscow are not reaching a conclusion, the Board of Governors may decide to take the Iranian issue into a second phase, providing for UN Security Council involvement with a view to sanctions against Teheran.