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Text of IAEA's draft resolution on Iran
By Associated Press
02/02/06 "AP" Tehran
-- -- The text of the draft resolution on
Iran submitted to the 35-nation board of governors of the
International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday, the eve of a
key meeting on the nuclear standoff with Tehran:
The Board of Governors
(a) Recalling all the resolutions adopted by the Board on Iran's
nuclear programme,
(b) Recalling also the Director General's reports,
(c) Recalling that Article IV of the Treaty on the Non
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons stipulates that nothing in the
Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable rights
of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production
and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without
discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of the
Treaty,
(d) Commending the Director General and the Secretariat for the
professional and impartial efforts to implement the Safeguards
Agreement in Iran of the suspension,
(e) Recalling that in reports referred to above, the Director
General noted that after nearly three years of intensive
verification activity, the Agency is not yet in a position to
clarify some important issues relating to Iran's nuclear
programme or to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear
materials or activities in Iran,
(f) Recalling Iran's many failures and breaches of its
obligations to comply with its NPT Safeguards Agreement and the
absence of confidence that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively
for peaceful purposes resulting from the history of concealment
of Iran's nuclear activities, the nature of those activities and
other issues arising from the Agency's verification of
declarations made by Iran since September 2002,
(g) Recalling that the Director General has stated that Iran's
full transparency is indispensable and overdue for the Agency to
be able to clarify outstanding issues (GOV/2005/67),
(h) Recalling the requests of the Agency for Iran's cooperation
in following up on reports relating to equipment, materials and
activities which have applications in the conventional military
area and in the civilian sphere as well as in the nuclear
military area (as indicated by the Director General in
GOV/2005/67),
(i) Recalling that in November 2005 the Director General
reported (GOV/2005/87) that Iran possesses a document related to
the procedural requirements for the reduction of UF6 to metal in
small quantities, and on casting and machining of enriched,
natural and depleted uranium metal into hemispherical forms,
(j) Expressing serious concerns about Iran's nuclear programme,
and agreeing that an extensive period of confidence-building is
required from Iran,
(k) Reaffirming the Board's resolve to continue to work for a
diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
1. Underlines that outstanding questions can best be resolved
and confidence built in the exclusive peaceful nature of Iran's
program by Iran responding positively to the calls for
confidence building measures which the Board has made on Iran,
and in this context deems it necessary for Iran to:
- re-establish full and sustained suspension of all
enrichment-related and processing activities, including research
and development, to be verified by the Agency;
- Reconsider the construction of a research reactor moderated by
heavy water;
- Ratify promptly and implement in full Additional Protocol;
- Pending ratification, continue to act in accordance with the
provisions of the Additional Protocol with Iran signed on 18
December 2003;
- Implement the transparency measures, as requested by the
director General, including in GOV/2005/67, which extend beyond
the former requirements of the Safeguards Agreement and
Additional Protocol, and include such access to individuals,
documentation relating to procurement, dual use equipment,
certain military-owned workshops and research and development as
the Agency may request in support of its ongoing investigations;
2. Requests the Director General to report to the Security
Council of the United Nations that these steps are required of
Iran by the Board and to report to the Security Council all IAEA
reports and resolutions, as adopted, relating to this issue;
3. Expresses serious concern that the Agency is not yet in a
position to clarify some important issues relating to Iran's
nuclear programme, including the fact that Iran has in its
possession a document on the production of uranium metal
hemispheres, since, as reported by the Secretariat, this process
is related to the fabrication of nuclear weapon components; and
requests Iran to maintain this document under Agency seal and to
provide a full copy to the Agency;
4. Deeply regrets that, despite repeated calls from the Board
for the maintaining of the suspension of all enrichment related
and reprocessing activities which the Board has declared
essential to addressing outstanding issues, Iran resumed uranium
conversion activities at its Isafahan facility on 8 August 2205
and took steps to resume enrichment activities on 10 January
2006;
5. Calls on Iran to understand that the Board lacks confidence
in its intentions in seeking to develop a fissile material
production capability against the background of Iran's record on
safeguards as recorded in previous Resolutions, and unresolved
questions; and to consider its position both in relation to
confidence-building measures and in relation to negotiations
that can result in increased confidence;
6. Requests Iran to extend full and prompt cooperation to the
Agency, which the Director General deems indispensable and
overdue, and in particular to help the agency clarify possible
activities which could have a military nuclear dimension;
7. Requests the Director General to continue with his efforts to
implement the Agency's Safeguards Agreement with Iran, to
implement the Additional Protocol to that Agreement pending its
entry into force, with a view to providing credible assurance
regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and
activities in Iran, and to pursue additional transparency
measures required for the Agency to be able to resolve
outstanding issues and reconstruct the history and nature of all
aspects of Iran's past nuclear activities;
8. Requests the Director General to report to the next regular
session of the Board on the implementation of this and previous
resolutions and convey to the Security Council that report
together with any Resolution from the March Board;
9. Decides to remain seized of the matter.
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