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    VIENNA, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The extraordinary meeting of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Board of Governors adopted here on Saturday a resolution to report Iran's nuclear issue to the United  Nations Security Council.

IAEA chairman Yukiya Amano (L) talks to Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asgar Soltanieh (R) before a board of governors meeting in Vienna Feb. 4. (AFP)

    The resolution, which was submitted by France, Germany and Britain, was approved with an overwhelming majority from the IAEA decision-making body. Of the 35 members within the IAEA Board of Governors, 27 voted yes, 3 voted no and 5 abstained.

   A Vienna-based diplomat said Cuba, Venezuela and Syria voted no, and Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Libya and South Africa abstained.

   The resolution urged Iran to take "confidence building measures", and "deems it necessary" for Iran to take some steps like:

    -- "re-establish full and sustained suspension of all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development, to be verified by the Agency (IAEA);"

   -- "reconsider the construction of a research reactor moderated by heavy water;"

   -- "ratify promptly and implement in full the Additional Protocol;"

IAEA director general Mohamed El Baradei & IAEA chairman Yukiya Amano (AFP)

   -- "pending ratification, continue to act in accordance with the provisions of the Additional Protocol which Iran signed on 18 December 2003."

    The resolution "requests the (IAEA) Director General to report to the Security Council of the United Nations that these steps are required of Iran by the Board and to report to the Security Council all IAEA reports and resolutions, as adopted, relating to this issue."

   It also "requests the (IAEA) Director General to report on the implementation of this and previous resolutions to the next regular session of the Board, for this consideration, and immediately thereafter to convey, together with any Resolution from the March Board, that report to the Security Council."

   Iran has threatened to end cooperation with IAEA if referred to the UN Security Council. Enditem