Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti

Moscow, 18 September: The nuclear power station at Bushehr (Iran) will start generating electricity in November 2007, the head of the Russian Atomic Energy Agency, Sergey Kiriyenko, has announced.

"The Bushehr station will be physically started up in September 2007 and will begin supplying electricity in November," he told reporters in Vienna.

He also confirmed that he will hold a working meeting with Iranian Vice-President Gholamreza Aqazadeh in Moscow on 25 September. Aqazadeh heads Iran's atomic energy body.

["We plan to discuss the schedule of works at Bushehr," Kiriyenko said in a report by Interfax news agency at 1059 gmt.]