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Sun 06 Jun 2007Iran, EU may meet in coming daysIran's chief nuclear negotiator and the European Union's foreign policy chief may meet again in the next few days for talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said today.Iran's Ali Larijani and the EU's Javier Solana held exploratory talks on May 31st in Madrid, but the meeting yielded no breakthrough on the core dispute - Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment as a condition for broader negotiations.