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| Iran says to fully cooperate with IAEA |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-06-27 21:19:43 |
TEHRAN, June 27
(Xinhuanet) -- Iran on Sunday stressed that it would continue full cooperation
with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to prove the
"strictly peaceful" nature of its nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency
reported.
"The IAEA can continue its inspections; we will also fully
cooperate with the agency since we know that such cooperation will benefit the
Islamic Republic," Hassan Rowhani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, was quoted as
saying.
"The inspections will prove that the Islamic
Republic's activities are strictly peaceful," Rowhani said, expressing his
confidence that Iran's nuclear file "will inevitably be withdrawn from the IAEA
agenda sooner or later."
He also reiterated Tehran's
commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Earlier in the
day, he announced that Iran was ready to hold comprehensive negotiations with
representatives of France, Germany and Britain in Tehran this week.
Rowhani, however, insisted on the country's decision to
resume manufacture and assembly of centrifuge components from next
Tuesday.
Rowhani posed the repeated rationalization by
claiming that the three European countries failed to fulfill their
commitments.
Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesman
Hamid-Reza Asefi echoed Rowhani when he announced that Iran would resume
centrifuges building on Tuesday but was to keep the suspension of uranium
enrichment.
"Our policy regarding the IAEA has not changed
... what has caused a change is the Europeans' failure to fulfill their
pledges," Asefi said.
Asefi stressed that Iran would resume
the construction and assembly of centrifuge parts under the IAEA regulations and
the supervision of the agency as well as the three European countries.
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