Iran Warns IAEA against Threat
News number: 880906052415:32 | 2009-11-27Nuclear
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) Ali Asqar Soltanieh on Thursday asked certain members of the IAEA
Board of Governors not to ruin the ongoing positive atmosphere and let the
Iran-IAEA technical cooperation continue.

"Resolutions, sanctions and threats have had negative impact; one can not
speak to our people, who have thousands years old civilization, with the
language of force, but with the language of logic," Soltanieh told Iranian
reporters after the IAEA Board of Governors session, when asked about the
draft statement offered to the meeting by Germany.

He said resolutions always make issues further complicated and have had the
reverse impact.

"So we recommend and advise not to do such things and let affairs go on in a
positive and constructive atmosphere," the Islamic republic news agency
quoted Soltanieh as saying.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Soltanieh referred to a statement issued by the
group of the IAEA Board members representing the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM),
in which they supported implementation of safeguards in Iran.

"NAM, comprising 100 states, once again supported Iran in a very strong
statement," he added.