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Soltaniyeh elaborates on IAEA justification-technical session on Iran

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, June 3, IRNA -- IRI ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations here Wednesday evening elaborated on agency’s justification-technical session on Iran.

According to IRNA correspondent in Vienna, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh who was speaking with IRNA exclusively after the end of the IAEA Board of Governors’ session said that such sessions are usually convened in the presence of the entire member countries’ ambassadors.

He added, “At the beginning of the session Deputy IAEA Secretary General Olli Heinonen and the Executive Head of the NPT Section Nacartes presented some explanations about the report and answered questions on technical and expert level questions.

Soltaniyeh said, “Today I preferred to pose a series of basic questions and gain their responses to them,” adding, I first asked “Do you in accordance with the findings of the agency’s inspectors that have many times checked Iran’s various nuclear facilities confirm that Iran has mastered the enrichment technology and gained technical and expert level capabilities in the field?”

The Iranian ambassador said, “Mr. Nacartes gave a positive response to that question, confirming particularly that Iran has been successful in enrichment up to 20% level, or to be more precise up to 19.3%”.

Soltaniyeh added, “The reason why I asked that question was driving the political point through to the minds of the UN and certain other countries’ representatives that the Islamic Iran has fully mastered the enrichment technology and such an important achievement can nether be abandoned, nor is at by any means returnable.”

Iran’s ambassador added, “I further asked whether they confirm that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities, including enrichment, are under full supervision of the agency?” to which he once again replied positively.

Soltaniyeh said, I asked “Do you confirm that Iran has fully obeyed the entire requests in the framework of the NPT?” and he said “Yes”.

Iran’s representative said, “I asked whether he also confirms that Iran and the agency have discussed over the points within the agreed modality and that they had all been resolved, save for the ‘claimed studies’, regarding which the Islamic Republic also cooperated as it best could?” adding, “Mr. Nacartes confirmed that the entire six points in the modality had been resolved and he appreciated Iran for the matter on behalf of the agency.”

Soltaniyeh said, “But regarding the claimed studies, I posed the question whether he accepts that in accordance with the modality the agency had accepted to deliver the related documents to Iran, but it failed in doing so because the United States did no permit that the documents would be delivered to Iran?”

He said, “Nacartes confirming the point and added that the agency had showed the slides of those cases at the Board of Governors.”

Soltaniyeh added, “Do you confirm that the former IAEA chief Mr. ElBaradei had in one of his reports stated that the claimed studies related to the American Laptop case are unauthentic, but they are included in this report all the same?” and he also confirmed that point.

The Iranian ambassador said, “I asked whether the agency confirms that the claimed studies were none related to nuclear materials, but to issues such as missiles and explosions, and therefore, none of the agency’s concerns?” and he confirmed, arguing, “It is merely due to the UN Security Council resolutions that we ask Iran such question, demanding responses.”

I finally declared whether the agency confirms that the Islamic Republic of Iran voluntarily abided by the Additional Protocol and its 3.1 Appendix for nearly two and a half years and stopped doing so only after Iran’s technical nuclear issue was referred to the Security Council in New York, that led to an Iranian Parliament law that forbid abiding by the additional protocol any longer?” and he confirmed that all those claims were absolutely true.

Soltaniyeh said, “We asked whether they also confirm that Iran has voluntarily permitted inspections of its heavy water reactor to IAEA inspectors, while the NPT does not urge member states to do so, and that was just a sign of Iran’s good will, and the agency’s inspectors also took samples there?” and he confirmed that it has been so.

Iran’s ambassador said, “Today for the first time we preferred to pose basic questions and gain their responses to them so that they would have no more excuses or no place for new denials and we meanwhile reflected our objections to the weak points Secretary General’s report, asking him to eliminate its deficiencies at such sessions.

Soltaniyeh said, “Meanwhile Cuba’s ambassador asked how come the important point of Tehran Communiqué has not been reflected in the report, that Heinonen replied, “That is because in this report we have focused on the inspections’ issue, but Secretary General Yukia Amano would definitely deal with the matter on the first day of the Board of Governors.”

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