RUSSIA: IRAQ TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS ITS DISPUTED URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME AND AGREES TO SIGN UP TO A TOUGH NUCLEAR INSPECTIONS PROTOCOL
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RUSSIA: IRAQ TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS ITS DISPUTED URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME AND AGREES TO SIGN UP TO A TOUGH NUCLEAR INSPECTIONS PROTOCOL
- Title: RUSSIA: IRAQ TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS ITS DISPUTED URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME AND AGREES TO SIGN UP TO A TOUGH NUCLEAR INSPECTIONS PROTOCOL
- Date: 10th November 2003
- Summary: (U4) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 10, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SHAKING HANDS WITH THE HEAD OF IRAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL HASSAN ROHANI; PUTIN GREETING OTHER IRANIAN OFFICIALS 0.24 2. MEDIA 0.30 3. WS: PARTICIAPNTS TAKING SEATS FOR TALKS 0.40 4. CLOSE-UP OF HASSAN ROHANI 0.45 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING: "And finally, a very sharp topic for both countries that is our mutual cooperation in the nuclear sphere and Iran's nuclear programme" 0.55 6. SCU: HASSAN ROHANI LISTENING 1.01 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) WIDE OF TALKS ZOOM INTO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING: "Iran is a fully-fledged participant of the world community and has all the right to develop its nuclear programmes in accordance with certain international rules." 1.19 8. PARTICIPANT IN THE TALKS TAKING NOTES 1.23 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) HASSAN ROHANI, HEAD OF IRAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SAYING: "Iran wants to exclude all worries and concerns regarding its nuclear programme. Before your government I officially announce that today we are giving to the IAEA a letter agreeing with the additional protocol. From today we are temporarily suspending our process of uranium enrichment." / CUTAWAY PUTIN LISTENING/ PARTICIPANT TAKING NOTES (4 SHOTS) 2.01 10. EXTERIOR OF THE KREMLIN 2.06 11. HASSAN ROHANI MEETING RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV; ROHANI AND IVANOV TAKING THEIR SEATS 2.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 25th November 2003 12:00
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: Iran to temporarily halt uranium enrichment programme
and to sign up to a tougher nuclear inspections
protocol
Iran told Russia on Monday (November 10) that it
was temporarily suspending its disputed uranium enrichment
programme from Monday and was giving a letter to the U.N.
nuclear watchdog agreeing to sign the so-called Additional
Protocol.
"Iran wants to exclude all worries and concerns regarding
its nuclear programme. Before your government I
officially announce that today we are giving to the IAEA a
letter agreeing with the additional protocol. From today we
are temporarily suspending our process of uranium
enrichment," Hassan Rohani, head of Iran's Supreme National
Security Council, told Russian President Vladimir Putin at
a meeting in Moscow.
By signing the key additional protocol to the
Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran allows snap inspections of
its nuclear sites. It would be a major step forward to
solving a months-long standoff with the IAEA (International
Atomic Energy Agency) over its nuclear programme.
Despite U.S. accusations that Iran is seeking to
develop nuclear weapons, Russia is helping Tehran build an
$800 million nuclear reactor in Bushehr. Iran says its
atomic programme is entirely peaceful.
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