VIENNA, Sept 24: Following are key points of Saturday’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution which supports an EU proposal for referring Iran to UN Security Council.
The IAEA Board of Governors:
— recalled that Iran has repeatedly failed to comply with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) relating to the reporting of nuclear material, its processing and its use, as well as the declaration of facilities where such material had been processed and stored.
— noted that while progress had been made in correcting Iran’s breaches and the IAEA’s ability to confirm certain aspects of Iran’s current declarations, the agency was not yet in a position to clarify some key issues after two and a half years of intensive inspections and investigation.
— stated that Iran’s full transparency was indispensable and overdue and noted that Iran had pursued a policy of concealment up to October 2003.
— expressed concern over continuing gaps in the agency’s understanding of proliferation-sensitive aspects of Iran’s nuclear programme.
— deplored Iran’s failure to heed the August call by the IAEA Board to re-establish full suspension of all enrichment-related activities including the production of feed material, including through tests or production at the Uranium Conversion Facility.
— expressed concern that Iran had failed to heed repeated calls to ratify the Additional Protocol to the NPT (that allows tighter international controls) and to reconsider its decision to construct a research reactor moderated by heavy water, as these measures would have helped build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.
— noted that the Agency was still not in a position to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran.
— found that, given the lack of confidence that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes, issues have arisen that merit the attention of the UN Security Council.
The Board urged Iran:
— to implement transparency measures such as granting access to individuals, documentation relating to procurement, dual-use equipment, certain military-owned workshops and research and development locations.
— to re-establish full and sustained suspension of all enrichment-related activity and reprocessing activity.
— to reconsider the construction of a research reactor moderated by heavy water. —AFP
