IAEA must be given opportunity to work in Iran - Lavrov
28/04/2006 16:20
SOFIA, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - The UN's nuclear watchdog should be guaranteed an opportunity to work in Iran as part of efforts to diffuse the long-running crisis around the country's controversial nuclear program, the foreign minister said Friday.
"Russia is still convinced of the necessity to guarantee the International Atomic Energy Agency the opportunity to work in [Iran]," Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting with NATO foreign ministers in the Bulgarian capital.
The minister said the principle of nonproliferation can be achieved only through the professional efforts of IAEA experts.
Lavrov said a report from the IAEA director general on Iran would be submitted to the UN Security Council and the watchdog's board of governors.
"The most important thing is to prevent threats to the nonproliferation regime," he said, adding that work must be conducted to allow all countries implementing the provisions of the Nonproliferation Treaty to use civilian nuclear power.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer also told a Friday news conference in Sofia that political efforts should be continued to resolve the Iranian problem and that diplomacy was the best way to end the crisis.
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