Alexander Yakovenko, deputy foreign minister of Russia, was commenting on a September 2 report by Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on the agency's guarantees in Iran.
According to Yakovenko, the IAEA Board of Governors will meet to discuss the report on mapping out measures to solve the remaining issues on September 19.
The report by the UN's nuclear watchdog on Friday "creates a solid foundation for a future professional and non-political IAEA approach to the resolution of Iran's nuclear problem," foreign ministry officials said.
"It would certainly be possible only if Iran wanted to cooperate fully and showed initiative while observing resolutions adopted by the IAEA Board of Governors," the officials added.
"We are willing...to join efforts with all interested parties to help this process," they said.
ElBaradei's report on IAEA guarantees in Iran was disseminated on September 2. The document was prepared in accordance with the August 11 resolution adopted by the IAEA Board of Governors after a discussion of Iran's partial lifting of its voluntary moratorium on uranium conversion.
The report said the resumed uranium conversion activities had been conducted under close monitoring by IAEA experts, and Iran had made steady progress in answering outstanding IAEA questions and correcting violations of the IAEA safeguards agreement.
According to Russian diplomats, the report does not mention any new violations.
"At the same time, there are still questions about Iran's past nuclear activity that have to be investigated by IAEA experts in cooperation with Iranian authorities," the ministry officials said.
