PARIS, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iran's recent test of a long-range missile sent a "worrying message" to the international community over Tehran nuclear plans and violated United Nations resolution, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said Thursday.
"France has taken notes with concern of Iranian testing of a ballistic missile," Nadal said in a daily e-briefing.
"The Oct. 11 launch constitutes a clear violation of this resolution (1929). It is a worrying message from Iran to the international community," he added.
The Security Council resolution 1929, which dated from 2010, prevented Iran from testing ballistic missile aimed to deliver nuclear weapons.
"Resolution 1929 will stay in place until confirmation by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), which should give its opinion at the start of 2016, on the implementation of Iran's nuclear commitments," Nadal said.
After a long deadlock, six world's major countries, China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain and the United States, along with Teheran, agreed on July 14 this year an accord to ensure that Iran's nuclear program would remain exclusively peaceful.
Once the deal takes effect, "Iran will be called upon not to undertake any activity on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons," according to Nadal.
The West want Iran to significantly scale back its nuclear program to address their concern of proliferation risk, while Iran insists that its nuclear right is inalienable.
Iran successfully test-fired a long-range missile on Sunday. Designed and manufactured by Irani experts, the missile, named "Emad," "is Iran's first long-range missile that can be guided and controlled until hitting the target," Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan said.
The Islamic Republic has the largest ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East and has developed a 2,000 km missile.
