Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Harrazi told a press conference on Saturday that "there will be no deviations from Iran's peaceful nuclear programs and in that respect Teheran will not undertake any additional commitments".
"The European countries - the United Kingdom, France and Germany - must meet the obligations they assumed under the agreements reached last October; any departure from those will spell a failure of the whole project aimed at settlement of problems pertaining to Iranian nuclear programs," Harazzi said.
According to him, "in case the Europeans wish to carry on cooperating with Iran on nuclear-related issues they must make good on their promises because Teheran has already fulfilled all its commitments under the agreement: signed an additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, suspended implementation of its uranium enrichment program and let IAEA experts inspect all its nuclear sites."
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed the peaceful nature of all Iranian nuclear programs and said that Teheran was not going to forego further work in the nuclear sector as such activities constituted a legitimate right of every sovereign state.
Shortly before the forthcoming session of the IAEA Council of Governors scheduled for June 14, the three European countries gave in to the US pressure and brought forward a draft resolution on Iranian nuclear programs running counter to the Islamic Republic's national interests.
At present, Iranian representatives are holding active consultations in Vienna with European countries as well as with countries of the Non-Alignment Movement in an effort to coordinate positions and work out the text of the IAEA resolution on Iranian nuclear programs. At the beginning of June, IAEA released a report by its Director General Mohammed Al-Baradei on the results of the agency's inspection of Iranian nuclear sites. Among other things, the concluding chapter of the report says that to date IAEA inspectors have found no evidence of a military bent in Iranian nuclear programs.
At present, a number of technical problems remain unresolved, primarily with regard to the final clarification of the situation pertaining to development of the P-2 centrifuge by Iranian engineers and identification of sources responsible for uranium presence in some parts of the centrifuges imported to Iran earlier from other countries. Teheran has repeatedly confirmed its readiness to supply all answers to the questions the final clarification of which requires more time.
The USA continues to accuse Iran of planning to create own nuclear weapons and insist on adoption of a harsh anti-Iranian resolution at the upcoming session of the IAEA Council of Governors.
Iran dismisses all these accusations, claiming that it has signed and observed all the provisions of the additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran hopes that the "Iranian dossier" will be closed and it would continue its cooperation with the IAEA in a normal format.
Referring to a statement made by Hasan Rouhani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, a well-informed source in the IAEA told RIA Novosti that Iran wants amendments to be made in the Council of IAEA Governors' draft resolution submitted jointly by the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
The document prepared by the three European countries and submitted for consideration at the 14 June session of the Council refers to "Teheran's incomplete cooperation with the IAEA regarding Iran's nuclear programs" and states that "the agency's suspicions concerning a possibility of Iran's development of own nuclear weapons have not been fully eliminated".
According to Rouhani, "the draft resolution reflects the position of the USA and someEuropean countries".
"If the IAEA Council of Governors does not make necessary amendments to the proposed resolution, it will mean that the European countries choose to ignore the commitments they undertook under their agreement with Iran," said the Iranian senior official on the eve of the session of the IAEA Council of Governors.
