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IAEA team holds crucial meeting with Iranian experts

Tehran, Aug 6, IRNA -- Members of the International Atomic Energy     
Agency (IAEA) started a crucial meeting here Tuesday with Iranian     
experts to discuss the technical, legal and political aspects of the  
Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.          
   The meeting was held following IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei's      
recent visit to Iran and an agreement with President Mohammad         
Khatami on the dispatch of these experts.                             
    According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the talks are to give  
both sides an opportunity to comprehensively examine the protocol in  
order to clear ambiguities on the Iranian side and enable its experts 
to give a report on the nature and effects of the protocol to the     
government.                                                           
    The talks are scheduled to continue on Wednesday.                 
    The two sides termed the talks "positive and constructive."       
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