Salehi: Iran ready for cooperation with IAEA
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
1390/08/30
11-21-2011
09:29:57
News Code :9008-19746
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said the country is ready for more cooperation with the IAEA if it balances its approach.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will modify its approach towards Iran. It will have no other choice. We are ready to cooperate more with the IAEA if it works according to the Safeguards Agreement rules," he told reporters Sunday.
“If that is the case, we are prepared to cooperate much the same as before and even further with the agency,” he said.
The UN Security Council has already imposed four sets of sanctions on Iran to pressure it to halt peaceful nuclear activities.
Salehi also called the UN Security Council recent resolution against Iranian peaceful nuclear work as well as documents released by the IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano "ineffective."
He said, "They made two mistakes. Firstly they released documents which lack credit and secondly their documents do not have any credit. The IAEA Chief had released the documents under pressures of western countries and he will find out in the future that he had made a mistake."
Also regarding Iran-IAEA relations, he said, "We try to keep our relations with Amano. We believe that the agency is the only legal source for nuclear activities of member states and we do not want its dignity be damaged."
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