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IAEA report indicates Iranian nation is committed to NPT, Khazaee

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

United Nations, New York, Feb 25, IRNA
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Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaee has said the IAEA report clearly indicated that Iranian nation is committed to Non-Proliferation Treaty.

In a letter to President of the Security Council Ricardo Alberto Arias and members of the Security Council as well as the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, the Iranian envoy said the report by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei on February 22, indicated that Iran's cooperation with the agency has been proactive and far beyond its comprehensive Safeguards agreement obligations.

It declares the full implementation of the Work Plan concluded between Iran and the agency in August 2007, and, thus, resolving and closing of all outstanding issues.

"The report clearly attests to the exclusively peaceful nature of the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran, both in the past and at present, and also serves to strongly and unambiguously support my country's long-standing position that the allegations raised by a certain country against Iran's peaceful nuclear program have been entirely groundless," the letter added.

By implementation of the Work Plan and resolution of the outstanding issues, the very pretexts and allegations, on the basis of which unlawful and unfair actions have been taken by the Security Council against Iran's peaceful nuclear program, have now proved to be baseless and are gone, it said.

"It is now clear more than ever that the consideration of Iran's peaceful nuclear program was imposed on the Security Council by certain countries out of mere political motivations and narrow national interests and on the basis of certain pretexts and allegations which have been totally baseless," it said.

The full implementation of the Work Plan, and thus resolution and closure of the outstanding issues as reflected in ElBaradei's report, has eliminated those pretexts and allegations which served as the basis of referral of Iran's peaceful nuclear program to the Security Council.

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