Iran's top nuclear negotiator on Tuesday said "ambiguities" in the EU incentives package aimed at persuading the country to suspend its nuclear programme would have to be removed before Tehran could make a response.
Ali Larijani made the statement in Tehran.
 "We are seriously following up the negotiations and insisting on the removal of the existing ambiguities in the EU incentive package at the earliest opportunity."
Larijani was talking to reporters ahead of leaving for Brussels for discussions about the package with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Wednesday.
The package, put forward by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany , and delivered to Tehran by Solana in early June, offers Iran incentives such as nuclear expertise and reactors if it accepts international oversight of its disputed nuclear programme.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his country would wait until mid-August to respond to the Western offer, a statement that was echoed by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday.
However the originators of the offer want Iran to respond to the incentives as early as this week, before the July 15-17 summit of the Group of Eight industrialised nations in Russia.
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