German envoy hails Iran-IAEA agreement
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Vienna, Sept 10, IRNA
Iran-Germany-IAEA
German Ambassador to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Peter Gottwald said on Monday that the agreement between Iran and the agency might hopefully prepare the ground for resolving the remaining issues on Iranian nuclear program.
He told IRNA on the sidelines of Board of Governors meet that the agreement is a step towards responding to the questions which had remained unanswered.
"We are waiting to see it work and hope to see it accomplish very soon."
Gottwald said that as IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei told the Board of Governors "we hope to see the matter be resolved within two or three years."
Asked whether the UN Security Council may take another step against Iran while both Iran and the agency are working on the timetable, he said that there are two issues - one concerning Iranian activities in the past and the second is about the current activities which go in parallel with each other and "I cannot predict the outcome."
"I hope to see progress in the two subjects and their coming back to the right track, the ambassador said.
In reply to a question whether Germany and the European states are opposed to uranium enrichment by Iran, the ambassador said it is very complex. "But, we always said that Iran has the right to have uranium enrichment on the basis of Article 4 of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
He said that there is problem concerning Iranian NPT rights which must be restored through confidence building.
"We never said Iran has no NPT right, we call for confidence building."
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