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Iran says IAEA board resolution mirrors strong sense of realism

IRNA

Vienna, Nov 26, IRNA -- In a statement presented to the IAEA Governing
Board meeting in Vienna, Iran said the IAEA board resolution, adopted 
on Wednesday, showed a strong sense of realism. 
The statement said the tone and content of some paragraphs are 
influenced more by the politics of the past twenty four years and less
by the facts that Iran reported to the Agency and were reflected in 
the Director-General`s report. 
For the same very reason, it added, the most important 
conclusion of the report, that is "to date, there is no evidence 
that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities ... 
were related to a nuclear weapon program", was not incorporated in 
the resolution. 
It said on the other hand, it is noted that the unflinching 
attempts to create a crisis about Iran`s peaceful nuclear program were
offset by the resolution. 
It said that unlike the US or the Australian delegations and 
perhaps a couple of others, Iran did not like the Director-General`s 
report not because the country contested the facts and the 
conclusions of the report, or because it wanted to teach the Agency 
and its officials how to do their jobs. 
"We did not think that the report was in part, "very 
questionable" or "more than unfortunate," because our academic 
experts did not like some of the report`s conclusions. Rather, we 
were unhappy with the report because we thought that by focusing 
disproportionately on the past, the report was redundant in many 
ways and did not fully and distinctly reflect the turn of policy and 
action in Iran on the 21st of October," read the statement. 
It said the statements made in Vienna in the board were a good 
illustration of the fact that non-proliferation regimes are two-way 
streets where balance should be forged between the rights and 
responsibilities of each and every signatory. 
It added that the fact that Iran has remained loyal to the NPT 
and the objectives of the safeguards, despite its unwarranted 
deprivation from its fundamental right, demonstrates the depth of 
its commitment to nuclear non-proliferation. 
It said it is hard to perceive that any other member, facing 
similar restrictions, would have sustained unreserved commitment to 
the Treaty. 
Tehran has gone to unprecedented length in trying to secure the 
trust and winning the confidence of the international community by 
disclosing all its past peaceful nuclear activities and also 
declaring its willingness to sign the Additional Protocol, said the 
statement. 
"We expect that these essential steps will be reciprocated by 
ending all distortions about Iran`s nuclear program and restrictions 
against its full access to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes 
and lead to recognition of our peaceful nuclear capabilities through 
relevant international frameworks," it said. 
The statement went on to say that the independence and the 
objectivity of the Agency have to remain intact, so that it could 
discharge its responsibilities and functions in the fields of 
verification and promotion activities in peaceful nuclear technology. 
It said for over two decades, Iran has been subject to one of 
the most severe series of illegal sanctions on material and 
technology for peaceful nuclear activities. As a result, it added, 
Iran`s legal and peaceful nuclear program had no choice but to 
become discreet. 
"While our obligations had to be observed, the slightest means 
to procure and produce our needs were, however, chased vigorously 
and suppressed violently," it added. 
One of the shortcomings in Iran`s Atomic Energy Organization, 
until a few years ago, was the lack of the safeguards control and 
accountancy management, it said, adding that this has been one of 
the major reasons as to why the results of some of the lab scale 
research experiments were reported in the international journals 
while they were not reported to the Agency. 
Iran urged the IAEA to include its statement be reflected in the 
official records of the meeting and be circulated as an official 
document. 
216/214 
End