Tehran, IAEA Find Solutions to Some Disputed Issues: Iran's Envoy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi said that Tehran and the IAEA have come up with solutions to a number of existing issues.
Delegates from Iran and the IAEA held a one-day meeting in Tehran on Wednesday in a bid to resolve the remaining issues regarding Tehran's atomic energy program.
In the meeting, some solutions were found regarding complicated issues remaining from previous years, Najafi told IRNA, adding that two topics still need further discussions in the next meeting.
Najafi explained that the two topics are related to the alleged use of "high explosives" in Iran's western Marivan region and information on "neutron calculations".
A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Tehran on Wednesday for talks on how to proceed with a framework of cooperation that Iran and the UN nuclear agency signed in November 2013.
The visiting delegation was led by IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of Department of Safeguards Tero Tapio Varjoranta.
According to Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), the purpose of the visit was to hold talks on the Joint Statement on a Framework for Cooperation, which outlines a roadmap on mutual cooperation on certain outstanding nuclear issues between Iran and the IAEA.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UNSC members plus Germany) are in talks to hammer out a lasting accord that would end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran's peaceful nuclear energy program.
On April 2, they reached a framework nuclear agreement after more than a week of intensive negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final deal until the end of June.
