Brazil, Turkey urge implementation of Tehran Declaration: FM
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, July 15, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Thursday that Brazil and Turkey still call for implementation of the Tehran Declaration.
He made the remarks during a joint press conference with his visiting Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rassoul.
Mottaki reiterated that Brazil and Turkey support the document and their stands are the same as before.
Today, several world states support the Tehran Declaration and underline the need for its materialization, the FM noted.
Known as the Tehran Declaration, the agreement was signed on May 17 by senior officials of Iran, Brazil and Turkey on the sidelines of the G15 summit meeting in Tehran.
Based on the agreement, Tehran accepted to send 1,200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kilograms of highly-enriched uranium which will be used as nuclear fuel for the country’s medical research reactor.
Mottaki further voiced Tehran’s readiness to take part in an upcoming international conference in Kabul.
He expressed hope that the event would help resolve the existing Afghan problems.
Mottaki announced that the Iran-Afghanistan-Tajikistan trilateral summit meeting will be held in the near future in one of the three countries’ capitals.
Tehran has announced its readiness for hosting the meeting, he added.
On EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton’s letter to the Iranian chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, Mottaki said her letter is under study.
In her letter to Jalili which was published Wednesday, Ms Ashton said conditions were right for a resumption of nuclear talks with Iran later this year.
The last high-level talks between Iran and Group 5+1 were held in Geneva in October 2009 when the two sides agreed on a nuclear fuel swap that has since been stalled.
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