Designated German FM insists on Iran's right for peaceful nuclear use
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, Nov 11, IRNA
Germany-Iran-Nuclear
Designated German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier here Thursday stressed on Iran's right to have a peaceful civilian nuclear program.
"Iran has the right for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, not however to nuclear weapons," DPA quoted Steinmeier as saying during an international conference which was organized by the German BND foreign intelligence service.
"What is needed from Iran were objective guarantees that it was pursuing a nuclear program exclusively for peaceful purposes," added Steinmeier who will take over from Joschka Fischer as Germany's new foreign minister once the German Parliament will vote for Angela Merkel as chancellor of a grand coalition government.
Meanwhile Steinmeier who heads Chancellor Schroeder's office, urged Tehran to show more transparency on its nuclear program.
Iran has repeatedly stated that its civilian nuclear program is only of peaceful nature and it has also opened its nuclear facilities to inspectors of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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