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Iran completely committed to Tehran Declaration: SNSC Secretary

IRNA

Tehran, Nov 18, IRNA -- Secretary of Iran`s Supreme National Security 
Council Hassan Rowhani in Brussels on Monday stressed Iran`s full 
commitment to Tehran Declaration. 
Rowhani made the remark in separate meetings with French Foreign 
Minister Dominique de Villepin, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw 
and German deputy minister of foreign affairs. 
During the meetings he stressed Iran`s firm determination to fight
weapons of mass destruction at regional and international levels and 
the country`s serious decision for mutual confidence-building and 
expansion of relations between Iran and Europe. 
Rowhani said that Iran does not seek a sectional and tactical move
and is determined to continue its confidence-building policies in 
order to promote security and bilateral, regional and international 
cooperation. 
He said Iran`s nuclear policies are voluntarily to prove the 
country`s peaceful nature of nuclear activities, adding the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has finally approved that 
Iran does not seek access to nuclear weapons. 
He noted that new dialogue between Iran and Europe is a start for 
peaceful nuclear cooperation and assessed Iran-Europe cooperation to 
free the Middle East from weapons of mass destruction as "constructive
and positive". 
Straw, for his part, said the aim of Germany, Britain and France 
from Tehran Declaration is a comprehensive plan towards 
confidence-building and is far beyond the issue of proliferation of 
weapons of mass destruction. 
Straw said that these three European countries seek the best and 
deepest ties with Iran and attach special importance to the dignity 
and independence of Iran, adding that they will not forget Iran`s 
difficulties over the past 100 years. 
Straw appreciated Iran`s recent transparent measures on behalf of 
France, Britain and Germany and said Iran`s measure to suspend uranium
enrichment activities is voluntarily which would be very effective to 
attract global confidence. 
He termed current dialogue between Iran and Europe as an important
historic opportunity for both sides and stressed continuation of such 
ties. 
Meanwhile, de Villepin also pointed to key dialogue and 
cooperation between Iran and Europe and said it is important for both 
sides to show the world confidence can be built through dialogue and 
cooperation and there is no need to resort to other ways. 
The world community and Europe seek continuation of 
confidence-building and cooperation with Iran, he added. In the 
process of confidence-building, the French foreign minister said that 
they intend to establish comprehensive Iran-Europe cooperation 
including a commercial agreement through settlement of current 
problems in mutual ties and non-proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction. 
German deputy foreign minister, who attended the meeting in the 
absence of Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, termed recent opportunity
in Iran-Europe ties as historical and called for consolidation of 
bilateral cooperation. 
SF/211 
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