Solana: EU wishes to resume nuclear talks with Iran

Tehran, 11 March 2008, IRIB
 
Iran's nuclear achievements and its refusal to give up its inalienable right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes despite the unjust pressures of the world's dangerously nuclear-armed power, the US, is making many of the Western powers reconsider their irrational policies.

According to the BBC, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana on the sidelines of a EU meeting in Brussels said despite the new UN Security Council resolution against Iran, the European Union is interested to resume nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.

Solana's remarks come after the announcement by Iran's President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that no talks would be held with any party outside the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki has also announced Iran's readiness for such talks, reiterating Iran's nuclear rights.

IRI's foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters Monday that Iran's nuclear policy is transparent and the Islamic Republic will continue its cooperation in the NPT framework.

Meanwhile Slovenia's foreign minister who is the current EU chairman admitted at the Brussels meeting that the IAEA should be the authority looking into Iran's case, for the agency is qualified and whatever IAEA Director-General Mohammed al-Baradei says, is important.

The UN Security Council last week, under pressure from the US and its accomplices, issued resolution 1803, which Iran has dismissed as a worthless piece of paper. Experts say the resolution is contrary to NPT contents and the rights of IAEA member states, thus indicating the politicized and illegitimate nature of the Security Council's measures.

Meanwhile al-Alam TV network reported that a conference was held on Iran's nuclear achievements in Syria where experts, thinkers and writers surveyed the importance of scientific achievements in the peaceful nuclear energy field.

They considered Iran's achievements in this regard as achievements of the Islamic world and reiterated the need for boosting Iran-Islamic states' ties to confront US and Zionist regime pressures.

On Sunday an international conference on peaceful nuclear energy was held in Tehran, where participants from several countries supported Iran's inalienable right to enrich uranium.