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IAEA spokesman stresses steady progress on Iran`s nuclear coop

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Sept 14, IRNA -- Spokesman of the International Atomic 
Energy Agency (IAEA) Mark Gwozdecky said here on Tuesday that the 
agency had a steady progress on Iran`s nuclear cooperation over the 
past couple of months. 
"We learned more about Iran`s nuclear activities. We managed to, 
more or less, resolve couple of issues such as uranium enrichment and 
conversion, and put those issues on a more routined bases," he told 
IRNA during an exclusive interview. 
"We have ruled out one possibility with regards to highly-enriched
Iranian uranium," he added. 
But there are still areas that the agency needs to find answers 
to, he said adding "in order to get those answers, we need information
from Iran." 
The agency also needs information from those countries that 
supplied materials and technology to Iran, he stressed, "the 
more quickly we get these information, the more rapidly we may 
resolve the remaining issues." 
On setting a deadline by the agency for Iran, he said the agency 
does not work on the basis of deadlines. 
The Board of Governors, on the other hand, has the ability to set 
deadlines if they wish to do so, he said adding that this is within 
their prerogatives. 
The board decides on some thing and then it is the agency`s 
secretariat that is to carry it out, the Ukrainian spokesman of the 
IAEA said. 
Answering a question on whether the IAEA would accept the US 
decision to send Iran`s nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, 
he said this is not upto the IAEA to decide. It is Board of 
Governors that has to decide, he added. 
The board is separate from the agency, he said adding that it 
represents 35 countries. 
They set policies and then the agency and its secretariat are 
bodies to carry them out, he said adding that it is their judgment 
to send Iran`s nuclear file to the Security Council or not. 
"Our job as the IAEA is to find the facts, collect the facts and 
present them to the board. The board then decide what to do." 
On putting an end to Iran`s nuclear case at the agency, he said 
that is one thing that every one agrees on. Everyone would like this 
matter to be brought to an end, he added. 
"But this process depends on flow of information. We try to move 
as quickly as the information comes to us. We would like to wrap it 
up as quickly as possible," he reiterated. 
As to distribution of the draft of resolution among the delegates 
participating in the Board of Governors meeting, he said the 
resolution has not yet been distributed. 
The resolution is being consulted by the European states and few 
other countries, perhaps the US and Russia, and when they come to an 
agreement, they will issue the resolution. So far they have not come 
to a conclusion, the IAEA spokesman concluded. 
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