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Soltanieh: Alleged studies not a part of remaining issues

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, May 27, IRNA
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Iran's IAEA envoy Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said on Tuesday that alleged studies is not among the remaining issues.

"In terms of classification and work plan (Modality), the issue of alleged studies is not among remaining issues," Soltanieh told IRNA one day after release of the IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei's report on Iran to the IAEA Board of Governors.

Soltanieh said the point had also been explicitly referred to in latest report of the IAEA director general to the previous session of the Board of Governors. The report had emphasized that the remaining issues have been investigated and solved and that the alleged studies is not among the remaining issues, he added.

"The point is that documents related to the subject were not put at Iran's disposal on time," he added.

As for the US role in the case, Soltanieh said, "The documents on which the Americans spoke were not offered to the IAEA in the right manner and the director general too has for the first time expressed regret over the failure."

Based on the report, Americans' failure to release the documents, and that its offering through an electronic form, has created serious problems for Iran and the Secretariat in the course of the technical talks, noted Soltanieh.

Asked whether there is any end to IAEA chief's reports and to investigation into Iran's case on the basis of the alleged studies, Soltanieh said after the Board of Governors meeting in March and one month before start of specialized talks in Tehran, the IAEA agreed to Iran's proposal to release full list of the alleged evidences so that no proof can be raised afterwards.

To this end, it had been cited explicitly that documents on Iran will be released only once and for all and that technical talks will be held only within the same limit.

To a question as to when Iran's case will be treated normally at he IAEA Board sessions, Soltanieh said Iran's cooperation with the IAEA and the Agency's inspections of Iran's facilities follow an ordinary course.

Asked about Iran's reactions to the US measures and that whether Iran-IAEA cooperation will be disrupted, he said the Islamic Republic of Iran will never allow politics to overshadow technical activities of the IAEA."
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