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Iran, Europe have reached new agreements: Moussavian

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Nov 27, IRNA -- The spokesman of the Iranian delegation to 
the IAEA Board of Governors, Hossein Moussavian, said here on Friday 
evening that Iran and Europe have reached a new agreement. 
Mousavian, talking to reporters at the end of the sixth Iran-EU 
meeting, he added that European countries have prepared a third draft 
of a resolution on Iran`s nuclear programs that is more consistent 
with the Paris agreement. 
In the Paris agreement it was clear that suspension was a 
voluntary act and not a legal obligation, he said, adding that this 
point is now clearly stated in the EU`s third draft resolution. 
The matter of voluntary suspension was not mentioned in the first 
and second draft resolutions of the European bloc, he pointed out. 
The third draft also stresses the right of signatories to the 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop nuclear technology for 
peaceful purposes, Mousavian added. 
He pointed out that the first European draft resolution contained 
some kind of a "trigger mechanism," that is, that if Iran did not 
fulfill its commitments regarding the issue of suspension its nuclear 
dossier would be referred to the UN Security Council, adding that the 
third draft has ommitted this provision. 
The new draft now stresses on inspection within the framework of 
the safeguards regime and Additional Protocol of the IAEA, Moussavian 
further said. 
It expressly provides that all IAEA activities with regard to 
Iran`s nuclear programs would be conducted within the framework of 
the safeguards provisions and Additional Protocol, he added. 
Mousavian also noted that the third draft very much stresses the 
Paris agreement. 
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