NPT Forms Backbone Of Iran Nuclear Talks With Group 5+1 : Mehmanparast

Tehran, May 28, IRNA – The Non-Proliferation Treaty forms the backbone of Iran's nuclear talks with Group 5+1, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Sunday. “Iran has been a signatory to NPT and signed the treaty in early stages of its emergence,” Mehmanparast told a meeting on Media Diplomacy in the era of Islamic Awakening Movements. He said that Group 5+1 lifted preconditions in Istanbul nuclear talks to speed up the outcome and the two parties agreed to focus on NPT in the nuclear talks. Mehmanparast said that the western governments have violated NPT citing an article which prohibits proliferation of nuclear arms. He said that the western nuclear states have provided the Zionist regime with nuclear warheads in clear violation of the NPT. The spokesman said that the Islamic Republic of Iran never wants to militarize its national nuclear program and regards uranium enrichment as its legitimate rights as long as it has been for civilian use. He said that Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano has declared 20 percent enrichment as civilian and if the western governments acknowledge the civilian nature of Iranian nuclear program and ask for halting 20 percent enrichment, Iran will consider their request./end