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Mon, 08/09/2010 - 13:47
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IAEA chief to notify Vienna group of nuclear talks: FM
TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (MNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr said that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has prepared a letter about the resumption of talks on a nuclear fuel swap and will soon submit copies to Iran, the United States, Russia, and France.
Mottaki made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Ali Shami in Tehran on Sunday.
After the Islamic Republic submitted its response to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Russia signaled its readiness to restart the negotiations, he said.
The United States has also said it welcomes the resumption of nuclear talks and France had stated before that it was ready for talks, he added.
In addition, Mottaki said that Iran is ready to return to the negotiating table based on “the principles it believes in”.
He also emphasized that the Vienna group’s talks would solely revolve around a nuclear fuel exchange deal.
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA headquarters in Vienna submitted Iran’s letter to the IAEA on July 26, which forwarded copies of it to the United States, France, and Russia (members of the so-called Vienna group).
On May 17, the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil signed a declaration, according to which Iran would ship 1200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency said, declared late July that Tehran is ready to resume negotiations on the fuel swap deal without conditions.
Mottaki made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Ali Shami in Tehran on Sunday.
After the Islamic Republic submitted its response to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Russia signaled its readiness to restart the negotiations, he said.
The United States has also said it welcomes the resumption of nuclear talks and France had stated before that it was ready for talks, he added.
In addition, Mottaki said that Iran is ready to return to the negotiating table based on “the principles it believes in”.
He also emphasized that the Vienna group’s talks would solely revolve around a nuclear fuel exchange deal.
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA headquarters in Vienna submitted Iran’s letter to the IAEA on July 26, which forwarded copies of it to the United States, France, and Russia (members of the so-called Vienna group).
On May 17, the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil signed a declaration, according to which Iran would ship 1200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency said, declared late July that Tehran is ready to resume negotiations on the fuel swap deal without conditions.
