The Iranian state owned FNA news service reports that the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency Sergei Kirienko will visit Iran in late August to attend a ceremony to inaugurate the country's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.

The news was announced during a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin and the Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi on Tuesday.

Russia has been building the nuclear facility in Iran since 1994. The inauguration of the station, originally scheduled to be completed in 1999, has been delayed on several occasions.