*Source: DTN News / Int'l Media
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON, USA - September 10, 2009: The US has received Iran's latest package of proposals and is studying it "carefully", hoping that Tehran would resume talks over its nuclear program, a US official says. 
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gives documents to (from L) Swiss diplomat Livia Leu Agosti, representing the United States, Russian envoy Alexander Sadovikov and French ambassador to Iran Bernard Poletti at the foreign ministry in Tehran on September 9, 2009. Mottaki handed over Iran's new package of proposals relating to its controversial nuclear programme to the envoys of six world powers -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany. The contents of the package were not immediately made public.
On Wednesday, Iran submitted the latest package of proposals on its nuclear issue to ambassadors from China, France, Germany, Russia and Switzerland - on behalf of the US - and the British charge d'affaires in Tehran.
"We're now reviewing it seriously and ... carefully," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
"We plan to confer with our ... partners in the P5-plus-one group, and I expect that we'll have more to say about it in the ... coming days," he noted.
Kelly said that the US hoped Iran would take up President Barack Obama's offer of diplomatic engagement with major world powers.
"We've made it clear to Iran that ... the choice really is theirs to make. They have a stark choice. They can continue down this path ... of isolation from the international community or they can choose to reintegrate with the ... international community," Kelly said.
Tehran has repeatedly declared that while it is willing to talk with the West, it will not give up the Iranian nation's legitimate rights under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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