VIENNA, Feb. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran will suspend all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA if its nuclear issue is reported to the UN Security Council, the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA, A.A. Soltanieh said here on Thursday.

    "If however a historical mistake is made by some member of the Board of Governors in sending the Iran's nuclear issue to the United Nations Security Council, ...... the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has to implement the law passed almost by consensus, to the effect that it has to suspend all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA," Soltanieh said.

    Speaking to the extraordinary meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, which opened here Thursday morning, the ambassador asked the meeting not to adopt the draft resolution submitted by the European Union (EU), which demands that it report the Iran issue to the UN top decision-making body.

    The ambassador said that the development of nuclear weapons is not Iran's intention and it will continue its full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

    However, he said that Iran still has the "inalienable right" to peaceful uses of nuclear energy, including "nuclear fuel cycle and research and development." Enditem