Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
September 20, 2005
If there is one goal in which governments of all kinds have found common purpose, it is halting the spread of nuclear weapons.
The bedrock of global efforts to establish a credible system for preventing their proliferation is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). More states have signed this Treaty than any other. Full compliance is...
September 20, 2005
The Fifth Informal Tripartite Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia, India and the People's Republic of China was held in New York on September 20, 2005.
September 19, 2005
Director General Mohamed ElBaradei reacts to the news that North Korea will abandon it nuclear weapons program, and on the Agency´s verification work in Iran, in a breifing to the international Press corps in Vienna today. Following is an unofficial transcript of his remarks to the press before the opening of the IAEA Board of Govornors meeting...
September 19, 2005
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Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran As requested, you have before you a comprehensive report on the implementation of safeguards in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I do not intend to cover the report in detail, but will limit my comments to the broad picture.
September 18, 2005
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi here Sunday said that referral of Iran's nuclear dossier to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has no legal basis and even if it goes to the UNSC, there is clear-cut procedure to deal with it.
Speaking to the media on his weekly briefing, he added that Iran's high potential in the management of...
September 18, 2005
ANDREW MARR: Now as we've been saying the UN Summit has not gone well. Jack Straw the Foreign Secretary was, I have to say unlike the Americans, sitting there listening to a hard line speech from the new President of Iran insisting on his right to develop nuclear technology whatever the West said. I spoke to Mr Straw a little earlier and began by...
September 17, 2005
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Q. - You have just heard the Iranian President's speech, did you note any new interesting proposals in it?
THE MINISTER - I listened very carefully to President Ahmadinejad. As you know, France, alongside the United Kingdom and Germany, has always argued for continuing the negotiations. We've always said that Iran had the right to civilian...
September 17, 2005
Today we have gathered here to exchange views about the world, its future and our common responsibilities towards it. It is evident that the future of the world is intertwined with its current state and the prevailing trends, which exhibit signs of hope and despair.
September 17, 2005
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday offered Iran's proposal on the country's nuclear program to the international community at the 60th meeting of the UN General Assembly.
President Ahmadinejad called on the UN General Assembly, as the largest organ of the world body, to set up a special committee to compile a comprehensive report...
September 17, 2005
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Back when you and President Bush first met in 2001, he famously said he looked you in the eye and he got a sense of your soul. Now, some U.S. officials complain that you have rolled back democratic reform. They say that you have differences with U.S. policy on Iraq, Iran and North Korea. You sell arms to Syria...