MALAYSIA: Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki tells reporters in Malaysia that Iran wants a U.N. fuel plan reviewed

Record ID: 313795

  • Title: MALAYSIA: Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki tells reporters in Malaysia that Iran wants a U.N. fuel plan reviewed
  • Date: 3rd November 2009
  • Summary: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (NOVEMBER 02, 2009) (REUTERS) (*** SOME FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) EXTERIOR OF HOTEL ROYALE CHULAN, VENUE FOR D8 MEETING SIGNAGE OF HOTEL VARIOUS OF D8 MINISTERS ENTERING HALL WIDE OF DELEGATES TAKING SEATS VARIOUS OF D8 MINISTERS D8 FLAGS IRAN'S FLAG IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKING TO OTHER DELEGATE WIDE OF MEETING MALAYSIAN HOST, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANIFAH AMAN SPEAKING AT MEETING VARIOUS OF DELEGATES MALAYSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANIFAH AMAN SPEAKING WIDE OF MEETING IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER MANOUCHEHR MOTTAKI LEAVING MEETING (SOUNDBITE) (English) IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER MANOUCHEHR MOTTAKI SAYING: "We have considered and we have some observations that we have informed the IAEA and I think they will decide to sit together the technical committee which have already two rounds of meetings, they may have some other meetings to consider the points which we have as our observations." IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 18th November 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Malaysia
  • Country: Malaysia
  • Topics: Energy
  • Reuters ID: LVA5DDM2OKJ1LQCMGYR3APQS53RC
  • Story Text: Iran wants the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to establish a committee to review a U.N.-drafted deal aimed at easing international tension over Tehran's atomic activities, its foreign minister said on Monday (November 2).
    Under a U.S.-backed plan, Iran would send most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for further processing to turn it into more refined fuel for a Tehran research reactor.
    "We have considered and we have some observations that we have informed the IAEA and I think they will decide to sit together the technical committee which have already two rounds of meetings, they may have some other meetings to consider the points which we have as our observations," Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters at a meeting of foreign ministers from eight developing countries.
    The plan aims to reduce Iran's LEU stockpile in order to prevent the material from being turned into highly enriched uranium needed for a nuclear bomb.
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