Tehran  - Iran said Tuesday that it would be "illogical" for world powers to insist that it suspend uranium enrichment as a condition for negotiations scheduled to start October 1.

"If the talks were entered right from the beginning with a precondition, then the results would be clear in advance and, therefore, the meeting would be an illogical move," the Fars news agency quoted Ali-Akbar Salehi, chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, as saying.

Salehi, who is also one of the country's 10 vice presidents, did not say whether Iran would cancel the scheduled meeting or not.

Iran, Germany and the five permanent member states of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - were scheduled to meet next month.

While Iran wants to focus the talks on its proposed solutions to global problems, the world powers want to discuss Iran's nuclear programmes.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Iran would only talk with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nuclear issue.

Salehi also denied reports that the talks would be held in Turkey, saying the venue has not yet been fixed.  dpa