Pakistan not sending centrifuges, parts to IAEA, spokesman
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, March 14, Kyodo/OANA/IRNA -- Pakistan denied Monday that the International Atomic Energy Agency has asked it to hand over gas centrifuges for examination or that it was sending parts of its centrifuge machines to the Vienna-based agency in connection with international investigations.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jeelani told a weekly briefing that Pakistan has carried out its own investigations into the clandestine transfer of nuclear technology by disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and has shared the results with the IAEA.
"In cooperation with the IAEA, let me say categorically that we will be strictly guided by our national interests," he said.
"Pakistan has not been asked to give centrifuges nor is Pakistan doing it."
Reports circulated by foreign news agencies from Washington had said that Pakistan had expressed its willingness to IAEA to send components of centrifuge machines to match them with Iranian centrifuges or with traces of enriched uranium found in Iranian nuclear facilities.
The comparison of enriched uranium and centrifuges could greatly help the investigators in establishing the stage of Iran's nuclear program since enrichment of uranium is a major step forward in the manufacture of a nuclear device.
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