By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran is ready to resume talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme and awaits word from the European Union on timing and details, Iran's deputy nuclear negotiator said on Thursday. Ali Bagheri, in an interview with Reuters in Geneva, said Iran needed 20 percent-enriched uranium for its Tehran research reactor and four others being built, and was continuing to convert some of its stockpile into reactor fuel.

Iran will inaugurate two big projects related to its nuclear program in the central province of Yazd on Tuesday, official IRNA news agency reported Monday.Saghand uranium complex is projected to extract uranium from 350-meter depth of the ground and the extracted uranium will then be processed into yellow cake (a kind of uranium concentrate powder) in another complex, Shahid Rezaeenejad, in the city of Ardakan, the report said.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will open the two projects on Tuesday on the occasion of National Nuclear Technology Day.

Creation of a nuclear fuel bank in Kazakhstan will not lead to terrorist attacks, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov said.Any state may face the threat of terrorism, he said. The question is about storage of low-enriched uranium. The security system of the Ulbinskiy metallurgical plant, where the nuclear fuel bank is supposed to be created, is very strong and received high regards from International Atomic Energy Agency, independent experts.

* Iran foreign minister says he "optimistic" about talks * Says plans to increase output of fuel for research reactor * Salehi says he won't run for president * Western officials say yet to see steps to ease fears (Adds comment from separate interview)