Iran's Top Negotiator: Powers Should Respect World Nations' Rights
Date 2011/1/23 11:03:54 | Topic: Iran
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FNA
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian negotiators in talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, France, Britain, China and Russia plus Germany) in Istanbul, Turkey, called on the world powers to give up their wrong policies and strategies and stop opposing the other nations' rights.
"We announced during these talks that the (world powers') previous wrong policy of confrontation with the nations' rights should be revised and that Iran is ready to continue the talks in such a ground," Saeed Jalili told reporters on Saturday after two days of high-profile talks between Iran and the six world powers in Istanbul, Turkey.
He stressed the world countries' right of access to the peaceful nuclear technology, and added, "I think that many activities can be done in area of the peaceful nuclear energy so that all countries can find the possibility to use the peaceful nuclear energy."
Jalili, who is also Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), stressed that cooperation in using the civilian nuclear energy is a good axis for cooperation among nations, adding that the rules which are enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and entitle every member state to develop a nuclear fuel cycle should be respected in such cooperation.
Iran and the world powers ended their talks in Istanbul talks a few hours ago.
The Iranian side was presided by Saeed Jalili, while European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton headed the delegations from the US, France, Britain, China and Russia plus Germany.
After two meetings on Friday, a member of the Iranian team of negotiators said that Iran had not allowed the opposite side to discuss a halt or suspension of uranium enrichment activities in Iran.
"There has been no word on enrichment at the talks at all and our country's nuclear rights have not been an issue on debate either," Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Undersecretary for Media Affairs Abolfazl Zohrehvand told reporters on Friday.
Reports said that during the negotiations, Iran didn't allow the western countries to derail the talks from the agenda that was agreed by the two sides at the end of their last month meetings in Geneva. The two sides agreed in Geneva that the Istanbul meeting would focus on "talks for cooperation" and "finding common grounds for cooperation".
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