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Iran keen on cooperation with IAEA, mutual understating

IRNA

Tehran, Oct 5, IRNA -- Iranian Representative to the International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Akbar Salehi here on Sunday said 
Iran`s criteria for mutual cooperation with the agency focused on 
mutual understanding and speed. 
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, he said that during 
negotiations with the visiting IAEA officials there was no agreement 
on setting a deadline to declare the conclusion. 
Domestic and foreign mass media in recent days had quoted Salehi 
as saying that Iranian and the visiting IAEA officials have agreed to 
conclude the issue within a specific time. 
Iran has not accepted the deadline set by IAEA Board of Governors 
(October 31) for Iran to sign the additional protocol to the nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he said adding that during the talks 
the two sides agreed to follow up the case in a defined framework. 
The Islamic Republic of Iran will do its utmost to speed up trend 
of this mutual cooperation to reach a final conclusion on the subject,
he said. 
Iranian officials call for continued cooperation with the IAEA, he
said. 
Rejecting allegations made by some western media on absence of 
understanding between Iran and IAEA in recent negotiations, he said 
the talks held in a positive atmosphere and the two sides agreed to 
continue cooperation. 
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