Iran Begins to Improve Nuclear Transparency

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Iran Begins to Improve Nuclear Transparency – IAEA

RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED 18.08.2014

Tehran has started to take steps to make its nuclear program more transparent to international observers, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano told the press Monday.

“The implementation of these five measures started. We have started and that is important and I expect that progress will be made over the next week,” Amano said in the Vienna airport, returning from a visit to Iran.

On Sunday Amano met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Amano said the meetings had been useful and that he was glad to hear that the Iranian leadership intends to resolve all the nuclear issues with the IAEA.

Another three-month peroid of IAEA-Iran agreements on the disclosure of information concerning Iran’s nuclear program expires at the end of August. The IAEA is conducting talks with the Islamic republic parallel to negotiations between the P5+1 group of nations (Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United States) and Iran on the final resolution to the disagreement over Iran’s nuclear program.

Topics: IAEA, Iran

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