Britain says wants Iran's answer on fuel offer

MOSCOW (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday that Iran should respond quickly to a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send uranium abroad for further processing.

"We both want to see a prompt response from the Iranian regime in respect of the Tehran research reactor proposal," Miliband told reporters after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.

Under the U.S.-backed plan, Iran would send most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for further processing to turn it into more refined fuel for a Tehran research reactor.

Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said on Monday that Iran wants the IAEA to establish a committee to review the deal. He said Iran would continue enrichment for its nuclear needs.

Russia's Lavrov said he hoped Iran would approve the IAEA proposal.

He also called for a new meeting of major world powers -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States -- with Iran for talks about the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.

"It should not simply be the latest meeting to discuss procedural questions but one at which a proper dialogue must take place on those proposals which the 3 plus 3 (powers) have made to Iran and taking into account those ideas which Iran has given to those proposals," Lavrov said.

(Reporting by Conor Sweeney, writing by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Dmitry Solovyvov and Michael Roddy)