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BERLIN (AFP) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has proposed setting up uranium enrichment centres under UN control to end nuclear disputes like the one over Iran.

Steinmeier said such centres could be used by several nations and placed under control of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the daily Handelsblatt said in an advance extract of its Monday edition.

“Interested countries like Iran could in this way obtain nuclear fuel for civilian use under strict control,” Steinmeier told the newspaper.

“It could be financed by countries that claim the right to buy nuclear fuel,” he added.

“We need to have an international supply of nuclear fuel to stop countries feeling the need to build their own installations.”