Feb. 8
TEHRAN (FNA)- Officials of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have kicked off their new round of talks in Tehran on Saturday, AEOI Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi announced.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Officials of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have kicked off their new round of talks in Tehran on Saturday, AEOI Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi announced.
A team of senior IAEA officials arrived in Tehran on Friday to hold talks with Iranian officials.
"IAEA Deputy Head Thro Varioranteh and Iranian Ambassador to IAEA Reza Najafi as well as AEOI’s Safeguards Director are taking part in the bilateral talks which started in Tehran on Saturday morning,” Kamalvandi said.
He underlined that the Iran-IAEA talks will focus on the continuation of mutual cooperation in the future.
Following the implementation of a joint agreement in Tehran signed by the IAEA and the AEOI in November, the IAEA inspectors visited Gachin uranium mine in Southern Iran in January.
“The inspectors have arrived in Tehran to make a visit to Gachin mine in Bandar Abbas,” Kamalvandi told FNA on Tuesday, adding that the visits will be paid in the form of "managed access".
Kamalvandi said that the IAEA inspectors would hold talks with AEOI officials before leaving Tehran for Bandar Abbas, and said, “In these talks, coordination will be made for the visits and they will go to Bandar Abbas at night to have the mentioned visits tomorrow.”
Inspectors of the IAEA also visited Arak heavy water facilities in December.
The inspection took place in line with a joint agreement signed on November 11 by Head of the AEOI Ali Akbar Salehi and the IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano on bilateral cooperation.
The agreement allows the IAEA inspectors to voluntarily visit Arak heavy water plant in Central Iran and Gachin mine in Bandar Abbas.
Kamalvandi announced in December that according to reports, the IAEA inspectors were “happy with their visit to Arak heavy water facilities.”
He said by allowing the IAEA inspections from Iranian facilities, Tehran is to build confidence and remove concerns of the other side.
He believed that the concerns were only felt by certain members of the UN nuclear watchdog and not by all.
However, he stressed no more inspections would be made after Arak and Gachin visits.
Source: FNA. (Fars News Agency)
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