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Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China,
and Russia failed to meet a Nov. 24 deadline for resolving a
12-year dispute over Iran's nuclear program and gave themselves
until the end of June for further negotiations.
As a result, a preliminary agreement reached late last year,
under which Iran halted its most sensitive nuclear activity in
exchange for limited sanctions easing, will remain in force.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is tasked with
checking that Iran meets its commitments under the accord.
In a confidential note to member states ahead of an
extraordinary IAEA board meeting next week to discuss the issue,
the U.N. agency said it estimated the cost of its extended
monitoring work at about 5.5 million euros.
To raise this amount, it said, "an additional amount of 4.6
million euros of voluntary extra-budgetary contributions would
be required".
(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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