Envoy: IAEA Should Remain Impartial Under New Chief

Date: 03 December 2019 - 22:00

News ID: ۷۳۴۹۶

TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations Kazzem Qaribabadi has urged the necessity of impartiality in acts and decision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under its new chief, Rafael Grossi.
Qaribabadi highlighted the IAEA’s obligation to maintain its independent, professional and impartial disposition with regard to facing critical issues, saying the UN nuclear watchdog should avoid forceful and unilateral measures.
"Iran believes that peaceful use of nuclear energy should not be hindered through unilateral and illegally forceful measures, nor be conditioned to any arbitrary and inadmissible preconditions on behalf of other countries,” Qaribabadi said.
Pointing to the notion that observation and verification of Iran’s nuclear program activities under UN Security Council Resolution 2231 was part of the IAEA’s basic mission at the present time, Qaribabadi said Iran was an "important partner” for the agency.
"Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the existence of the three pillars of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and also the credibility of the IAEA is by and large predicated upon commitment to these principles,” the Iranian diplomat added.
On October 29, the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors picked Grossi, a 58-year-old Argentinean diplomat, to become the agency’s next chief, succeeding Yukiya Amano, who died in office in July.