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Mr. Chairman,

On the latest report of the Director General, my delegation has some comments and observations which would be distributed in writing at a later stage and as an INFCIRC document. However, I need to make a few comments on the report in this meeting:

1. Once again it is stated that the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material at the nuclear facilities declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement.

2. On the issue of non-implementation of the Additional Protocol, Iran is not a party to it, and therefore, has no obligation to implement it;

3. For the question of not implementing modified Code 3.1, there exists a difference of interpretation between Iran and the Agency

4. And on legally-flawed resolutions, by which cruel sanctions are imposed on Iranian people, our positions are well-known and I am not going to repeat them.

As regard to the structured approach, my delegation, in principle, is not willing, and considers it inappropriate, to get into details of a document on which negotiations are still underway. However, since the Agency made public its views on the details of the document without mentioning Iran's observations on the same points, I need to be more specific.

My delegation fully shares two significant points made in the report. Firstly, the Agency stated that "it is important that the structured approach document be sufficiently unambiguous to minimize any possible future misunderstandings between the Agency and Iran." In our view, exactly for this reason we cannot leave any ambiguous notion in the document. We believe unclear and vague concepts will only lead to a different interpretation of the document and can hinder its implementation. It would be wise that the differences be discussed and solved only during the negotiations on the document.

Secondly, another important point included in the report, is the Agency's assurance with regard to Iran's security concerns. We really appreciate such assurances and believe it is essential that those assurances be included in the document unambiguously. This is a very sensitive area that neither Iran nor any other country in the world can compromise on it. Therefore, when we are dealing with topics related to a defense establishment which is a national security subject, all necessary precautions must be made.

One last point with respect to the urgency of the substantive work which we also believe in, is that while we categorically reject allegations against our activities including those about certain locations in Iran, we would be ready to constructively cooperate with the Agency in order to remove any ambiguity around them in the framework of an agreement which is currently being discussed between Iran and the Agency, provided that the results of our cooperation would unconditionally reflected in reports of the Agency.

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