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High-ranking diplomats from Britain, Germany, France, Russia, China and the United States will meet in London Monday to discuss the escalating dispute over Iran's nuclear program, the Russian envoy to the United Nations said Friday.

Andrey Denisov told Xinhua that senior officials from the six countries' foreign ministries are expected to discuss in London "what should be done" after Iran removed the UN seals on its nuclear facilities this week.

"Maybe the result (of the meeting) will be the decision to go to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors," he said.

Denisov said Russia does not "exclude" the option to bring Iran before the Security Council if all necessary procedures within the IAEA have been exhausted.

But he warned that referring Iran to the council might make things more complicated, citing Tehran's threat to stop all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.


(Source: Xinhua)