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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comment after talking with Turkey's prime minister during a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said.

Ahmadinejad repeated promises that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons, the report said. Then he added: "Iran is ready to transfer nuclear know-how to the Islamic countries due to their need."

What a wonderful humanitarian guy! Give him the Nobel Peace Prize already!

At the United Nations, foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany the three European countries negotiating with Iran on behalf of the European Union said Ahmadinejad was expected to respond to the renewed offer in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday.

The European announcement came after the troika of ministers met with Ahmedinejad and his team as well as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.

"We put forth proposals. They are still on the table," British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said after the 80-minute meeting. "They have yet properly to be considered by the other side."

Oh, I don't know, let me guess: they are going to do exactly what they've been doing for the last two years; stall, stall, and stall some more, and develop the nukes while Europe babbles and America watches.

Straw said the Iranian leader would make his country's proposals in a speech to the General Assembly. He said Ahmedinejad did not indicate in their meeting whether Iran would halt uranium enrichment.

German Foreign Minister Joshcka Fischer said they "discussed into the details the situation" with Ahmedinejad and his team and repeated the EU position. The EU is now waiting for the Iranian president's speech.

"Hopefully, we will have a positive direction but I can't predict that," he said.

By the same token, I'm expecting the sun to rise from the West tomorrow, hopefully it will come from the right direction, but I can't predict that.

After the earlier meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, Fischer said the European troika "underlined that our position is on the table, our position is unchanged."

"Surrender, surrender at all costs!"

The U.N. spokesman, reporting on the president's meeting with Annan, said there were "cordial discussions on the need to continue the negotiations on the nuclear issue in search of a mutually agreed solution." A statement said Ahmedinejad reaffirmed his intention to put forward new proposals in his General Assembly speech on Saturday.

"Meet the new proposal. Same as the old proposal. No proposal at all."