30.01.2005, 16:09
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Zitat:IAEA chief praises cooperation with Iran
LONDON, Jan 30 (IranMania) - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday that he was receiving "good cooperation" from Iran on the country's controversial nuclear programme, AFP reported.
"I am saying that we are getting good cooperation from Iran," the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog told journalists at the World Economic Forum.
IAEA nuclear inspectors said on January 18, after completing a first inspection, that they wanted to return to a military site in Iran where Washington charges that Tehran is illicitly simulating nuclear weapons testing.
"In the last 15 months we have made good strides in understanding the nature and the scope of its programme," El Baradei said.
The IAEA had no evidence that Iran was developing nuclear weapons through its atomic energy programme, he indicated.
"We cannot work on the basis of beliefs, we have to work on the facts," the UN nuclear chief said, while acknowledging that IAEA was relying largely on its own equipment, inspections, and information gathering.
But inspectors were receiving no information or evidence from outside sources, he cautioned.
"If people have information and on this basis are coming to the conclusion that this is a weapons programmme, then I would very much like them to share it."
"Right now we are not getting much, so we are relying on our own abilities," he added
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