IAEA Board of Governors urged to consider truth
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, March 2, IRNA
Iran-IAEA-Hosseini
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Sunday urged Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency to consider truth in decision making.
Talking to reporters, he said certain countries expect the trend going on at the Security Council to follow at the IAEA Board of Governors too.
Commenting on a statement issued by the Non-Aligned Movement in support for the IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program and Tehran-IAEA cooperation, Hosseini said Tehran would continue with its IAEA cooperation.
He expressed the hope that the Board of Governors must consider the realities of Iran's nuclear activities.
Asked about Iran's reaction to a measure taken by the IAEA's head of safeguards, Olli Heinonen, in displaying certain slides during a meeting of the Board of Governors, he said Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, has commented on the issue in details.
The IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei also pointed to the issue and said such measures damage the IAEA report and discredit the agency, Hosseini noted.
Such measures prove that the western governments have no belief in international organizations and their international commitments, Hosseini added.
The allegations were too weak to be considered as a separate issue by the IAEA officials, he said.
They could not prove their claims, he said adding that the IAEA report also reiterated that the fake documents had no credit.
Soltanieh had previously argued that the allegations were based on fake intelligence which could easily have been put together "by any undergraduate", and added that they were "just creating difficulties for the agency and poisoning the cooperative environment."
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