"There has been no new message from the G8 which wrapped up its meeting last night," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters at a news conference.

"They (world leaders) had different views and in some cases they did not reach an overall agreement... we are going to present our package which will be a basis to negotiate all regional and international issues," he added, without elaborating.

"If there is a new message we will act on it accordingly," Mottaki said.

On April 15, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran will present a new package to the group of P5-plus-1 world powers in a bid to solve various bones of contention, including its sensitive nuclear work.

The P5-plus-1 group -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -- has authorised EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to talk to Iran over the nuclear issue.

The package announced by Ahmadinejad and referred to by Mottaki on Saturday is essentially a new version of a plan presented by Tehran to the group in May 2008 proposing consortiums to enrich uranium and manufacture nuclear fuel, including in Iran.

Iran's defiant plan to continue enriching uranium lies at the heart of the controversy over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Highly enriched uranium can be used to make atomic weapons, but low enriched uranium is used in nuclear power plants. Tehran denies it wants to make atomic weapons and insists its nuclear programme is aimed solely at generating electricity.

Talks between Iran and P5-plus-1 have been on hold since September.

US President Barack Obama cranked up pressure on Tehran by saying on Friday that world leaders were "appalled" at post-presidential election violence in Iran and would not stand idly by while the Islamic republic builds a nuclear weapon.

Welcoming a rare consensus on Iran among the globe's most powerful nations at the L'Aquila G8 summit in Italy, Obama told reporters he hopes Tehran will recognise that "world opinion is very clear."

The G8 joint declaration expressed "serious concern" over post-election violence in Iran but called for a negotiated resolution to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme, giving it time until September's G20 summit.

"We also say we're not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of the nuclear weapon, the breach of international treaties, and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act," Obama said.

"So my hope is that the Iranian leadership will look at the statement coming out of the G8 and recognise that world opinion is clear."

Iran was rocked with violent street protests after the June 12 election re-elected Ahmadinejad by a thumping majority.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of runner up Mir Hossein Mousavi poured onto Tehran streets opposing the hardliner's landslide victory.

In the ensuing violence which erupted in the capital, at least 20 people were killed and hundreds wounded.

The crisis, worst to have hit the Islamic republic since the 1979 revolution, triggered a crackdown by authorities on the protestors.

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Powers won't wait for Iran to build nuclear weapon: Obama
US President Barack Obama cranked up pressure on Iran by saying Friday world leaders were "appalled" at post-poll violence and would not stand idly by while Iran builds a nuclear weapon.

Welcoming a rare consensus on Iran among the globe's most powerful nations at the L'Aquila summit, Obama told reporters he hoped Tehran would recognize that "world opinion is very clear".

The G8 joint declaration expressed "serious concern" over post-election violence in Iran but called for a negotiated resolution to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme, giving it until September's G20 summit.

"And that's been always our premise, is that we provide that door," said Obama.

"But we also say we're not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of the nuclear weapon, the breach of international treaties, and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act.

"So my hope is that the Iranian leadership will look at the statement coming out of the G8 and recognize that world opinion is clear."

Russia, Iran's closest thing to an ally at the world's most powerful top table, argued that the bloody crackdown on opposition protestors after the June 12 polls was an "internal matter", and Washington failed to find support for its call for tougher sanctions against Tehran.

But after his first G8 summit, Obama played down the lack of concrete steps and talked up a united front, particularly since he had avoided a row with Russia.

"What we wanted was exactly what we got, which is a statement of unity and strong condemnation about the appalling treatment of peaceful protestors," he said.

"And so I think the real story here was consensus in that statement, including Russia. Which, you know, doesn't make statements like that lightly."

Obama pronounced himself pleased with the second part of the declaration, "that we will reevaluate Iran's posture towards negotiating the nuclear weapons policy," at the G20, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ahead of the United Nations General Assembly.

"And I think what that does is it provides a time frame. The international community has said: 'Here's a door, you can walk through. That allows you to lessen tensions and more fully join the international community'."

"If Iran chooses not to walk through that door, then you have on record the G8 to begin with, but I think potentially a lot of other countries that are going to say, we need to take further steps."

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