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TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran has responded to an international offer of incentives for suspending its nuclear enrichment activity, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday. Mottaki said Iran responded with its own proposal, which involves another set of talks.And contrary to what others -- including the United States and the European Union -- have said, no deadline was agreed upon during talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana during talks in Geneva, Switzerland, this month, Mottaki said.On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran not to delay its response. A two-week deadline for the response to the offer made to Iran by envoys from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China ends this week, officials have said.But Mottaki said that no deadline was discussed at the meeting and that one was mentioned only afterward.Solana, appearing with Jalili at a July 19 conference after the talks, said he expected to receive an answer from Tehran in two weeks.The nations offered the package of economic and other incentives because they and others are concerned that Iran may be working to build nuclear weapon... >>>