On 20 May 2014 Iran and the IAEA held another technical meeting within the Framework for Cooperation agreed between the two sides last November during which they both reviewed the good progress that had been made on the seven practical measures which were agreed in February 2014.
The Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed on the following practical measures to be implemented, in accordance with the Framework for Cooperation by Iran by 25 August 2014. The five practical measures are as follow:
1. Exchanging information with the Agency with respect to the allegations related to the initiation of high explosives, including the conduct of large scale high explosives experimentation in Iran.
2. Providing mutually agreed relevant information and explanations related to studies made and/or papers published in Iran in relation to neutron transport and associated modelling and calculations and their alleged application to compressed materials.
3. Providing mutually agreed information and arranging a technical visit to a centrifuge research and development centre.
4. Providing mutually agreed information and managed access to centrifuge assembly workshops, centrifuge rotor production workshops and storage facilities.
5. Concluding the safeguards approach for the IR-40 reactor.
On 8 and 9 February 2014, Iran and the Agency held constructive technical meetings within the Framework for Cooperation that was agreed between the two sides in November 2013. During the meetings, the two sides reviewed progress on the implementation of the six initial practical measures that were agreed in Geneva, November 2013.
Iran and the Group 5+1 – Russia, China, France, Britain, the United States and Germany – sealed an n interim deal in the Geneva on November 24, 2013 dubbed the Geneva Joint Plan of Action, according to which the six countries accepted to provide Iran with some sanctions relief in exchange for Iran agreeing to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities during a six-month period.
In February 2014 Iran and the Agency reached agreement on seven practical measures which were implemented by Iran by 15 May 2014. In early May IAEA’s inspectors came to Tehran to talk with Iran’s National Atomic Energy Organization officials on a safeguard approach of Arak heavy water complex. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors also visited Saghand mine in Yazd and Ardakan Yellowcake Production Plant.
Ending the inspectors’ visits in the country, Iran ended the measures it had to take according to the seven practical measures accord of February, the agreed measures were:
1. Providing mutually agreed relevant information and managed access to the Saghand mine in Yazd;
2. Providing mutually agreed relevant information and managed access to the Ardakan concentration plant;
3. Submission of an updated Design Information Questionnaire (DIQ) for the IR-40 Reactor;
4. Taking steps to agree with the Agency on the conclusion of a Safeguards Approach for the IR-40 Reactor;
5. Providing mutually agreed relevant information and arranging for a technical visit to Lashkar Ab'ad Laser Centre;
6. Providing information on source material, which has not reached the composition and purity suitable for fuel fabrication or for being isotopically enriched, including imports of such material and on Iran's extraction of uranium from phosphates; and
7. Providing information and explanations for the Agency to assess Iran's stated need or application for the development of Exploding Bridge Wire detonators.
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA said that three out of five new measures agreed upon between Iran and the agency related to recent topics and two other measures related to the previous issues.
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