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UN chief stresses diplomacy to solve Iran N-standoff
Friday November 11, 2011 10:43:36 AM,
IANS
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United Nations: UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Thursday expressed deep concern
over the possible military-dimension to Iran's nuclear programme,
and called for a diplomatic solution to resolve the issue.
The secretary-general has expressed serious concern after the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Tuesday accused Iran of
conducting activities aimed at developing nuclear weapons, UN
spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
"The secretary-general reiterates his belief that a negotiated
rather than a military solution is the only way to resolve this
issue," Nesirky said at a news briefing, Xinhua reported.
Ban emphasized again that "the onus is on Iran" to prove the
peaceful nature of its nuclear programme, and reiterated his call
for Iran's compliance with all the relevant resolutions of the UN
Security Council and the IAEA board of governors.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has circulated an updated
report on Iran for consideration at the meeting of the IAEA board
of governors, and copies of this report have also been submitted
to the UN Security Council, Nesirky said.
The UN Security Council has imposed four rounds of international
sanctions on Iran, despite Tehran's repeated insistence on the
"peaceful" nature of its nuclear programme.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Saturday that the
relevant IAEA documents are "unfounded and baseless".
On Wednesday, the Russian foreign ministry said that the report is
a "politicized compilation of well-known facts".
"The authors (of the report) juggle the facts to create the
impression that Iran's nuclear programme has a military
component," it said in a statement, adding that the approach can
"hardly be called progressional and unbiased," and the report
might lead to "a dangerous confrontation".
Tehran insists on the "peaceful" aspect of its nuclear programme,
but the US and its Western allies worry that Iran would use the
uranium enrichment to make nuclear weapons.
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