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Vienna, Sept 16, IRNA -- Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Gholamreza Aqazadeh said on Monday that Iran, as a vanguard of advocating nuclear-free zones, played an effective part in drafting Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for the Middle East and approval of a resolution to that effect in the UN General Assembly in 1974.
He said in his address to the 46th general conference of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran is the messenger of Dialogue of Civilizations and calls for a world administered with wisdom, free from weapons of mass destruction and free from the ominous phenomenon of terrorism. |
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"The Islamic Republic of Iran in line with the Islamic and humanitarian beliefs has always fostered cooperation with the IAEA and has carried out all the scientific and research programs and civilian application of nuclear energy specially the Bushehr power plant in coordination with the international agency and its supervision.
He said that Iran has long-term plans to set up nuclear power plants to bring its electricity output capacity of 6,000 megawatts by the next 20 years adding that Iran needs nuclear technology for fuel processing and management of fuel wastes.
Aqazadeh said that Iran is willing to foster partnership with countries capable of building and development of the power plants in cooperation with the IAEA.
He said that Iran calls for transparency in nuclear programs in line with the religious requirement and always condemns any country which may seek access to the weapons of mass destruction.
Pointing to the IAEA's objectives, Aqazadeh said that the international agency works to prevent any non-civilian application of nuclear energy and at the meantime to develop the use of nuclear energy for civilian purposes so that the Islamic Republic of Iran calls for full implementation of NPT and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) by all the IAEA member states.
He regretted that double standard and the discriminatory policies have undermined the NPT and the CTBT.
He said that according to the NPT, all the nations has the right to use nuclear energy and nuclear technology for civil purposes and those nuclear states are required to transfer technology to the other nations under the IAEA criteria.
He posed a question why some signatory states to the NPT, despite their international commitments, are prevented from acquiring nuclear technology?
He asked why the Zionist regime backed by the nuclear states do not heed the international treaties and the inspection criteria and are producing weapons of mass destruction regardless of the concerns of the international community?
Aqazadeh aid that discrimination and double standard have led the prospects of nuclear disarmament to ambiguity and darkness.
He said that the nuclear states have heavy responsibility in enforcement of the NPT.
The two-day general conference of the IAEA opened on Monday. The agency was established by the UN General Assembly in 1957.
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