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Thu, 11/19/2009 - 16:40
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Soltaniyeh: Iran will not do anything beyond commitments
Vienna, Nov 19, IRNA – Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA said that legal commitments and cooperation among countries need to be properly defined and have limits, stressing, “We will not do anything beyond our commitments.”
Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh who was speaking with IRNA, after his press conference following the IRI Board of Directors session on Iran to discuss outgoing Chief Muhamed ElBaradei’s last report on Iran, said: “In that session there were technical discussions, questions, and answers regarding the Secretary General’s report, prior to the Board of Directors decision making session.
“We presented the necessary explanations there informing the representatives that there is a major problem with the report, which is entering the details, which creates problems in the minds of the public, while those issues are too technical for public presentation,” Soltaniyeh added.
“The second point we made in that session was regarding our Fordo site, and that we had fully cooperated, and that the inspections had all been conducted in accordance with the surveys there,” he further stated.
“As the agency’s secretary general, had once again reiterated, and today, too, at the session the IAEA official in charge of the Safeguards, Herman Nackaerts, emphasized, we had reported about the specifications of this site in time, and that our report matched the findings in the reports of the agency’s inspectors, which means neither any problem, not any ambiguity remains about that site,” Soltaniyeh emphasized.
“From now on, too, the site would be under the supervision of the agency and its cameras, and right tomorrow (on Thursday) the IAEA inspectors would have another visit of the Fordo Site, which means there is absolutely no problem regarding Iran’s cooperation in case of this site,” he added.
“The point stressed at the session, which I, too, focused on, was that there must be certain defined commitments and limits to them, and that Iran will go no further than its defined commitments,” he underlined.
“We would in fact meet all our commitments within the NPT framework and if we take steps every once in a while in our cooperation with the agency aimed at solving ambiguities, they should not be interpreted as innovations and new legal commitments,” he continued.
Soltaniyeh added that “there were at any rate argument about certain parts of that report, which I put forth and questions were posed, which I replied to, including pointing out that we have no commitment for replying to the agency regarding the heavy water project, and (to yield to) inspections there, since we are not implementing the Additional Protocol, but I am proud to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran has mastered both the enrichment technology and the heavy water techniques, and whenever the heavy water reactor would be completed, our country would begin taking advantage of it.”/end
Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh who was speaking with IRNA, after his press conference following the IRI Board of Directors session on Iran to discuss outgoing Chief Muhamed ElBaradei’s last report on Iran, said: “In that session there were technical discussions, questions, and answers regarding the Secretary General’s report, prior to the Board of Directors decision making session.
“We presented the necessary explanations there informing the representatives that there is a major problem with the report, which is entering the details, which creates problems in the minds of the public, while those issues are too technical for public presentation,” Soltaniyeh added.
“The second point we made in that session was regarding our Fordo site, and that we had fully cooperated, and that the inspections had all been conducted in accordance with the surveys there,” he further stated.
“As the agency’s secretary general, had once again reiterated, and today, too, at the session the IAEA official in charge of the Safeguards, Herman Nackaerts, emphasized, we had reported about the specifications of this site in time, and that our report matched the findings in the reports of the agency’s inspectors, which means neither any problem, not any ambiguity remains about that site,” Soltaniyeh emphasized.
“From now on, too, the site would be under the supervision of the agency and its cameras, and right tomorrow (on Thursday) the IAEA inspectors would have another visit of the Fordo Site, which means there is absolutely no problem regarding Iran’s cooperation in case of this site,” he added.
“The point stressed at the session, which I, too, focused on, was that there must be certain defined commitments and limits to them, and that Iran will go no further than its defined commitments,” he underlined.
“We would in fact meet all our commitments within the NPT framework and if we take steps every once in a while in our cooperation with the agency aimed at solving ambiguities, they should not be interpreted as innovations and new legal commitments,” he continued.
Soltaniyeh added that “there were at any rate argument about certain parts of that report, which I put forth and questions were posed, which I replied to, including pointing out that we have no commitment for replying to the agency regarding the heavy water project, and (to yield to) inspections there, since we are not implementing the Additional Protocol, but I am proud to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran has mastered both the enrichment technology and the heavy water techniques, and whenever the heavy water reactor would be completed, our country would begin taking advantage of it.”/end
