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Khatami: Iran accepts protocol with reservation on national sovereignty right

IRNA

Putrajaya, Malaysia, Oct 17, IRNA -- President Mohammad Khatami said 
on Friday that Iran has never rejected negotiations with the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the additional protocol
to Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has only reservations about a 
single note that runs counter to national sovereignty. 
He told a press conference on the sidelines of the the OIC Summit,
that the U.S. has had the same reservation in signing the protocol. 
The president reminded that before the Islamic revolution the 
Americans themselves had advised Iran to plan for generating 8,000 
megawatts of electricity from nuclear power plants as an economical 
way of generation energy. 
Khatami noted that as a signatory to NPT, Iran is entitled to 
receive technical assistance from the UN Specialized aganecy and the 
IAEA`s charter obliges the agency to provide members with expertise, 
stressing that Iran respects the international safeguard standards. 
Asked by IRNA about the president`s view concerning this year 
nobel prize given to Iranian lawyer Mrs Shirin Ebadi, he said that it 
is "a good omen". 
He however referred to certain wrong approaches in evaluations 
either to exagerate or downgrade a matter and said one should manage 
to avoid going to extremes about different subjects. We should see 
everything proportionate to its status and importance, he said. 
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