FRANCE, GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN DISCUSS IRAN'S RIGHT
TO
OBTAIN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY & IAEA VERIFICATION
STATEMENT BY THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON
FRENCH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
August 10, 2004
Excerpt
Q - I have here a wire-service dispatch stating that there was a meeting
last Thursday between high officials from France, Germany, Great Britain
and Iran, and that during their meeting, Teheran demanded that Paris, Berlin
and London support its right to obtain nuclear technology. Do you have any
comment on this?
As you know, France, Germany and England have been engaged in a dialogue
with Iran about its nuclear program for several months now. This dialogue
is being pursued in support of the activities of the International Atomic
Energy Agency in Vienna.
In this context, the three European nations received an Iranian delegation
in Paris on July 29. At that meeting, they insisted that Iran must fully
suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities, as it had pledged, with
IAEA verification.