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EU troika confirms Iran's cooperation with IAEA

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Nov 23, IRNA
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EU troika, inclusive of Germany, Britain and France, here Friday at IAEA Board of Governors Meeting, confirmed that Iran is effectively cooperating with the IAEA.

The Permanent Ambassador of France at the IAEA read out the EU troika's communique, a copy of which was faxed to IRNA Office in Vienna.

Iran's close cooperation with the IAEA, and the additional information provided for that international body by the Islamic Republic of Iran are conformed by the EU troika at the communique.

The document emphasizes, "We noticed that Iran has provided the IAEA with additional information about the cooperation of its centrifuges."

It adds, "We also observed that Iran has taken appropriate steps in line with the work map it has agreed to proceed upon with the IAEA."

The communique notes, "We ask Iran to improve the level of its cooperation with the IAEA and to provide answers for the entire remaining questions within the next few weeks."

It says, "We are agreed with the IAEA Secretary General that there must be an end for this process, and we think his proposal to end it within the next few weeks is quite appropriate."

The communique meanwhile considers Iran's cooperation with the Agency "insufficient and reactionary", referring to the Agency's request from Iran to present the full history of its nuclear activities, and asks the head of the IAEA Board of Governors, "Some six months after Iran's acceptance of this new commitment, and few weeks before its end, what are the Agency's achievements?" The EU troika has in its communique also repeated the baseless US-Israeli espionage agents' claim over the threat of Iran's manufacturing of atomic bombs, echoing the illogical Western demand for Iran's suspension of its uranium enrichment activities.

It refers to putting to use 3,000 UF6 fed centrifuges under the supervision of IAEA inspectors at Natanz underground facilities, adding, "There was no active centrifuge at that center at the beginning of the year 2007."

The EU communique then claims that this number of centrifuges can within the span of one year, theoretically speaking, manufacture enough enriched uranium for the production of one nuclear bomb." It adds, "It is stated at the IAEA Sec Gen's report that Iran has tested new generations of centrifuges, and this is worrying for the EU."

The EU troika ends the communique with an emphatic request that Iran should heed its commitments, suspend its sensitive nuclear activities, accept to abide by the NPT Additional Protocol, and abide by the IAEA's request for observing full transparency, adding, "We all the same favor negotiations aimed at solving the problem."

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