Austria: UN and Iranian nuclear agencies reach critical deal - IAEA director

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The United Nations nuclear watchdog has reached a critical deal with Iran in solving an issue pertaining to the maintenance of monitoring equipment, which “will give space for diplomacy” said International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi at a press conference in Vienna, on Sunday, after returning from Tehran.
Grossi explained the details of the agreement reached.
“We will be able to keep the information needed to maintain continuity of knowledge. As you know this is predicated on a system that was agreed last February, whereby we keep monitoring, registering, taping,” he said.
The agency chief however outlined that this was not a permanent answer to the issue at hand.
“This cannot be a permanent solution, this has always been seen for me at least as a stop gap as a measure to allow time for diplomacy without us losing the basic information and data that we need,” Grossi said.
In a joint statement released by the IAEA and the Atomic Energy Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (AEOI) both parties agreed to engage in high level discussions with the intention of reaching a permanent solution.
“The Vice-President and the Head of AEOI will meet the IAEA Director General at the sidelines of the upcoming General Conference, and the IAEA Director General will also visit Tehran in the near future to hold high level consultations with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the aim of enhancing cooperation between Iran and the IAEA in different fields and discussing current issues of mutual interest,” the statement outlined.

SOT, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General: “We managed to rectify the most urgent issue: The imminent loss of knowledge we were confronted with until yesterday. Now we have a solution. This is very important, let me repeat this is going to allow us to ensure continuity of knowledge about the inventory about the production of heavy water rotors, bellows for centrifuges, uranium ore concentrate, very important things that would have been lost. Now this ability to continue to count on this has been restored.”

SOT, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General: “My discussions with the new head of the AUI were very frank, I would say honest. We have our difference but these were constructive discussions and I believe if they have taken this decision now its because they know if we were to go back to the same situation the directors of the IAEA would have to say this again so I believe there is a realisation that this is a situation that needs to be preserved to give space for diplomacy, as it has been the case since February so that wider solutions can be reached.”

SOT, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General: “We will be able to keep the information needed to maintain continuity of knowledge. As you know this is predicated on a system that was agreed last February, whereby we keep monitoring, registering, taping, keeping information and the reconstruction and the coming together and the coming together of the jigsaw puzzle will come when there is an agreement at the JCPOA level but at that time we will have all this information and there will not have been a gap.”

SOT, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General: “So I think I had certain agreements with the previous administration so I need to recommit, I need them to recommit to them or to endorse them or to change them but in a way that leads them to a solution which is of course part of my desire.”

SOT, Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General: “I would agree that this is not a permanent solution, this cannot be a permanent solution, this has always been seen for me at least as a stop gap as a measure to allow time for diplomacy without us losing the basic information and data that we need.”

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