Warsaw, Nov 26: The resolution UN nuclear watchdog adopted today condemning Iran's nuclear programme is the result of a "complex compromise", Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said. "We are not satisfied with all the parts of the resolution, but the main thing is that we were able to keep this issue under examination at the IAEA without it being sent to the UN Security Council as some countries wanted," he said at a joint news conference with Polish counterpart Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz.

He said that to refer the programme to the UN Security Council "would only complicate an already complex situation."

Ivanov arrived here today on an one-day visit to discuss bilateral cooperation after Poland joins the European Union on May 1. He said that by keeping the issue within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency "thus opens perspectives for cooperation between Iran and the IAEA".

The resolution the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors adopted in Vienna. Wednesday balances the US call to condemn Iran for 18 years of hidden nuclear activities that included making plutonium and Britain, France and Germany's demand that Iran be rewarded for cooperating since October with the IAEA. Bureau Report