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ElBaradei optimist about resumption of Iran-EU talks

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Nov 25, IRNA
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Secretary General of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei expressed optimism here Friday that Tehran and EU3 (France, Germany and Britain) would "as soon as possible" resume their stalled talks over Iran's nuclear program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's spokeswoman Melissa Fleming, announcing ElBaradei's stand on the issue, told IRNA here Friday at the end of IAEA Board of Governors meeting, "IAEA chief is meanwhile optimist about achieving more noteworthy progress through new inspections in process in Iran today."
The IAEA spokeswoman added, "Achieving such advancement is in need of broader cooperation and continuous transparency on the part of Iran."
Fleming in response to IRNA's question on her prediction about the process of pursuing surveys on Iran's nuclear program in the future, keeping in mind that the Thursday session of IAEA Board of Governors sufficed in issuance of a communique, said, "Iran's dossier would be surveyed in March session of the IAEA Board of Governors, and there is a probability that a board member country at any date before that would ask for an emergency session on the case."
The IAEA Board of Governors session that had started its activities on Thursday morning at IAEA's Vienna Headquarters ended on Friday afternoon after two days of intensive talks.

During the said meeting the Board of Governors surveyed IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei's five-page report on Iran that was published last Thursday, evaluating the level of Iran's cooperation with the agency in a bid to solve the remaining ambiguities in nuclear crisis over Iran's peaceful nuclear activities.

Among the other issues discussed at IAEA's two-day meeting there were a report by IAEA Technical Assistance Committee, a discussion on how to test a country's extent of truthfulness in reporting its nuclear activities, and decision-making talks on how to distribute IAEA's share of the 500 million euro in the Noble Peace Prize jointly given to ElBaradei and IAEA.

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