Iran's package on tackling global challenges addresses security issues, economic cooperation, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and energy issues including nuclear energy, Iran's envoy at the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told reporters in Vienna.

However, the proposal is not expected to address the main Western demand that Iran suspend its controversial uranium enrichment, and is therefore unlikely to lead to any breakthrough in the nuclear dispute.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has several times in the last three months stressed that Iran would hold nuclear talks only with IAEA.

The last meeting between Iran and the so-called 5+1 group was held in July 2008 in Geneva with the participation of US Under Secretary of State William Burns.

Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would defend its internationally acknowledged legitimate rights to the end and not make any compromise with world powers over its nuclear programmes.

'Resistance is the secret of the (1979) Islamic revolution and with increased popular support, we will enter the international scene with more decisiveness than before,' the president said.

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili insisted that Iran would go on with its nuclear programmes regardless of what world powers say.

'We will not wait for others to give us permission to pursue our path of progress,' Jalili said referring to Western demands to suspend the atomic work. 'The era in which a few countries imposed their standpoints on others is over,' he added.