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IAEA to visit Iran's Arak facility, July 25, 2007

IAEA - Iran: Arak Visit Announced Next Meeting Due To Take Place in Tehran 20 August 2007, Staff Report, July 25, 2007.

IAEA inspectors will visit Iran´s Arak reactor early next week and more talks are planned for August. The visit was announced yesterday in Vienna after a meeting between senior IAEA officials and a delegation from Iran as part of a process to resolve outstanding issues related to Iran´s past nuclear programme and to clarify some present safeguards implementation issues.

Speaking to the press after the meeting, Olli Heinonen, Deputy Director General for Safeguards, said "early next week, IAEA inspectors will visit the Arak reactor as we agreed the last time. Then a week later, our team will go to Iran to talk about other outstanding issues such as plutonium contamination. In the weeks to come, we will then talk about other outstanding issues that are related to Iran´s enrichment programme," he said.

Javad Vaeedi, Head of the Iranian delegation and Under-Secretary of Iran´s Supreme National Security Council, described the meeting as one during which "good discussions were held and constructive progress was made." He also announced that the next meeting between the two parties will be held in Tehran on 20 August.

Transcript of IAEA - Iran Press Briefing IAEA Headquarters Vienna Delivered 24 July 2007

A delegation from Iran met at IAEA Headquarters as part of the process to draw up a work plan for the modalities for resolving the outstanding issues related to Iran´s past nuclear programme. IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards, Olli Heinonen, and head of the Iranian delegation, Javad Vaeedi, Under-Secretary of Iran´s Supreme National Security Council, addressed the press:

HEINONEN: This whole process started two weeks ago and is continuing. We have been talking about outstanding issues. This time we agreed on certain fixed time schedules. Some events will take place next week; our inspectors will visit the Arak reactor as we agreed last time. Then a week later, some inspectors and a team will go to talk about other issues such as the plutonium contamination. And then, we talk about other outstanding issues that are related to the enrichment programme. These discussions will continue in the weeks to come."

VAEEDI: This meeting was the second one. This is a follow-up of Tehran. We had a good discussion, and we had constructive progress in this meeting. Also we fixed the next meeting on 20 August, in Tehran. Now we look forward to move forward in the best mood and with the best efforts.

Source: International Atomic Energy Agency, http://www.iaea.org.

© 2007 The Acronym Institute.