Tehran, Iran ? Iran will soon offer new proposals for negotiations with Europe over its controversial nuclear program, the country’s ultraconservative president said Wednesday. The Bush administration responded by saying the European diplomatic process “still has legs.”

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he instructed the Supreme National Security Council to draw up a new set of proposals over Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

“Iran will soon offer proposals about the cycle of nuclear fuel for peaceful use of nuclear energy,” he said on state-run television.

“We want to continue talks with all. We will continue dialogue,” he said, but he didn’t elaborate if that included the United States. Iran has so far said it doesn’t see any role for the United States to play as long as it continues to maintain its hostile approach toward Iran.

The comments by Ahmadinejad suggest he wants to launch a new process of dialogue in the hope of persuading Europe to recognize Iran’s right to enrich uranium.