Itongadol.- UN nuclear inspectors will be ready to verify the implementation of any agreement between Iran and six world powers on curbing the Islamic Republic\’s atomic activities, their chief said on Tuesday.
A day after he signed a cooperation pact with Iran granting the International Atomic Energy Agency access to two nuclear-related sites, Yukiya Amano also said the IAEA would issue its latest report on Iran\’s nuclear program in coming days.
He spoke after Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Britain and China edged close to a preliminary nuclear accord during negotiations at foreign minister level in Geneva at the weekend and decided to meet again there on Nov. 20.
The IAEA\’s talks with Iran – aimed at clarifying suspicions that Iran has carried out atomic bomb research – are separate from the big power\’s diplomacy but both tracks center on fears that Tehran may be developing nuclear weapons capability.
The six nations want Iran to halt its most sensitive nuclear fuel-making work and take other measures as part of a confidence-building deal that would buy time for negotiations on a more far-reaching settlement of the decade-old dispute.
"If there is some agreement between the P5+1 and Iran and if we are requested to implement some verification measures, we are prepared to implement them," Amano told reporters at Vienna airport upon his return from Tehran.