"Yes, it will be in Vienna, probably in mid-week," a senior European diplomat close to the talks told AFP.

Britain, France and Germany had Thursday presented Iran with a deal to receive valuable technology, including a light-water nuclear reactor which would produce less fissionable material than the heavy-water reactor Tehran wants to build, if it indefinitely suspended all uranium enrichment activities, the diplomat said.

"We are at an initial stage, matters have to be considered on both sides," Iranian official Sirus Naseri told reporters after the three-hour meeting in Vienna.

"I think we'll get together in a matter of a few days," Naseri said Thursday.

An EU diplomat in Brussels said Friday that next week's meeting would be in "the same place, with the same people."

In Berlin, a foreign ministry spokesman said Germany wanted Iran to be given every available opportunity to continue negotiations with Europe until November 25.

The spokesman said that Thursday's Vienna talks were only "part of a series of discussions" that will be held before the end of next month.

"We have to give Iran a chance until November 25," the spokesman, Walter Lindner, told reporters in Berlin at a routine government press conference.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, holds its next meeting on November 25 and Washington has been pressuring it to refer Iran to the UN Security Council if it does not back down.

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