Disarmament Documentation

IAEA Director-General statement concerning Iran,

'Introductory Statement to the Board of Governors by IAEA Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei', June 14, 2005.

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Implementation of Safeguards in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Regarding the implementation of safeguards in the Islamic Republic of Iran, I would like to update you on the Agency´s activities since the March meeting of the Board. As at that Board, Deputy Director General for Safeguards, Pierre Goldschmidt, will provide more details later during this meeting.

The Agency has continued its efforts to verify Iran´s compliance with its NPT safeguards obligations. Iran has facilitated Agency access under its safeguards agreement and additional protocol to nuclear material and facilities. In keeping with the Board´s requests, the Agency has also continued to monitor all aspects of Iran's voluntary suspension of enrichment related and reprocessing activities.

The Agency is making progress on one of the two key remaining issues: namely, the origin of the low and high enriched uranium contamination on equipment at various locations in Iran. Last month, the Agency received from another Member State a number of centrifuge components, on which we have been conducting environmental sampling. I am grateful for the cooperation of this Member State in assisting our efforts to resolve these matters.

With regard to the second issue - namely our efforts to verify information provided by Iran regarding its centrifuge enrichment programmes - we have continued to press for additional documentation regarding offers of equipment made to Iran, as well as for information on associated technical discussions between Iran and intermediaries in the procurement network. Iran has provided some additional documentation and information, which are not yet sufficient to answer several remaining questions.

The Agency will continue to pursue these and other verification issues. I continue to ask Iran to provide detailed information that could shed light on the outstanding issues. I would also ask Iran to support the Agency's efforts to pursue further its investigation of the Lavisan-Shian and Parchin sites, by working to reach agreement on modalities, currently under discussion, that would provide the Agency with access to dual-use equipment and other information related to the Lavisan-Shian site, and would allow additional Agency visits to areas of interest at the Parchin site.

I intend to report progress in September, and hopefully, with the cooperation of all parties, reach conclusion on some of these outstanding issues.

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

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