“Amano issued a good report on the implementation of the JCPOA, in line with what we demanded that the IAEA just consider the JCPOA and not the interpretations,” said Ali Akbar Salehi, the Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), after meeting with Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in Vienna on Thursday.
Salehi told the media that the meeting was intended to be about the implementation of the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed between Iran and sextet on July 14, 2015, in Vienna) and the measures taken in the framework, in the first three months of the project. He said that he was content with Amano’s report but he had again articulated Iran’s considerations in the meeting.
“The JCPOA, is a thick tomb full of articles and different inferences are possible to be made about the content of it and that is the reason we [the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran] insist that the text itself to be the touchstone and not the inferences or interpretations,” the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization underlined.
He reassured that Iran’s relation with the IAEA is excellent and the tasks are seriously followed by Mr. Amano and his colleagues.
“Matters were discussed very transparently and clearly, with less political concerns, and more technical and legal considerations, and the overall output of the meeting was positive,” highlighted the Iranian official.
He also described his two day visit to the Czech Republic and Slovakia positive and voiced hope that with joint projects, Iran with benefit from the expertise of the two countries.
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