IAEA Delegation Due in Iran Wednesday
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plans to visit Iran later this week, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said on Monday.
The nuclear watchdog "has taken the decision to send a group of observers to Tehran on April 15," RIA Novosti quoted Amano as saying at Japan's annual Atomic Industry Forum, a non-governmental organization on nuclear energy.
The IAEA "welcomes the progress of talks in Iran's nuclear program in the P5+1 format," said Amano, referring to the framework agreement recently reached in the nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
However, he added, the IAEA is not one of the parties to the negotiations, and as such "it is difficult to comment on their further progress."
Iran and the Group 5+1 (also known as P5+1 or E3+3) are in talks to hammer out a lasting accord that would end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.
On April 2, they reached a framework nuclear agreement after more than a week of intensive negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final deal until the end of June.