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"The discussions revealed that the secret texts between Iran and the Agency have not even been provided to the US administration."
TEHRAN
(FNA)- Iran's Envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency Reza
Najafi objected to the US Senate's demand for being briefed about the
contents of the recently signed roadmap of cooperation between Tehran
and the IAEA, warning the UN nuclear watchdog to avoid disclosing its
secret agreements with Tehran.
"The
agreements signed between a member country and the IAEA are definitely
secret and cannot be presented to any other country at all," Najafi said
in an interview with the Iranian students news agency on Saturday.
Referring to the discussions at the US Congress
during which the US officials elaborated on the nuclear agreement
between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and
France plus Germany), he said, "The discussions revealed that the secret
texts between Iran and the Agency have not even been provided to the US
administration."
"For the very same reason, they cannot be presented to the Senate members either," Najafi added.
Elsewhere in an interview with another Iranian
news agency, the envoy said Tehran has already warned the IAEA chief
against the repercussions of a disclosure of its agreement with the UN
nuclear watchdog agency.
"Iran has clarified it to Amano that the text of
its understanding with the IAEA cannot be presented to the Senate,"
Najafi reiterated.
He further warned that "the Agency knows what it means to disclose a secret document".
The Iranian envoy also cautioned Amano that he is
duty bound now to accept possible invitations of other countries'
legislatures after he accepted last night to attend a US Senate meeting.
Head of the IAEA Yukiya Amano and Head of the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi signed a roadmap of
cooperation in Vienna on July 14.
The roadmap contains secret arrangements stated in
one or two documents entailing on the methods to be used by the two
sides in their cooperation.
Senior Iranian nuclear officials have said that
all IAEA member stated [sic] have such secret agreements and the UN nuclear
watchdog is duty bound to keep them secret to any third party individual
or state.
After the roadmap was signed, Salehi announced
that the new agreement would fully settle all unresolved issues
pertaining to Tehran's nuclear activities in the past.
"All past issues will be resolved completely after
Iran and the Agency adopt some measures," Salehi told reporters after
signing an agreement called the Iran-IAEA Cooperation 'Roadmap'.
He said that all agreements, including the
measures decided for Parchin military site, will be implemented with
full respect to Iran's redlines.
Iran had earlier announced that inspection of the country's military sites are one of its redlines.
"I hope that a new chapter in relations and
cooperation between Iran and the IAEA will start after the settlement of
the past issues," Salehi added.
Salehi made the remarks in Vienna just a short
time after diplomats acknowledged a sum-up agreement had been made
between world powers and Iran.
In relevant remarks late July, Iranian Deputy
Foreign Minister and senior negotiator Seyed Abbas Araqchi said that
Tehran and the IAEA have compiled a new roadmap to settle the issues
related to Parchin military site in Iran.
"The issues related to the past which are wrongly
described by the IAEA as Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) have been
discussed between Iran and the IAEA and God willing, they will be
resolved based on the new roadmap signed by Mr. Amano and Salehi (the
head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran) and the arrangements
made," Araqchi said.
"The road is in the same direction of the past
agreements with a new roadmap and some related annexes which are
Iran-IAEA documents and that's why they have not been released as no
other country would release the documents that it has with the Agency,"
said Araqchi.
FarsNews
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