"We are now preparing the official statement for the Agency and the document is undergoing the natural and routine procedure", Khatami told journalists on Wednesday.
He noted that "Iran continues to abide by its obligations on the problem of the Iranian nuclear programmes in line with the additional protocol, signed with the IAEA last October, to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty" (the protocol intends sudden, without notifying the Iranian side, international inspections of any nuclear facilities in the territory of Iran).
The Iranian National Nuclear Energy Organisation reports that, "after the full readiness of the statement, which is part of the comprehensive report on the state of the Iranian nuclear programmes, the documents will be passed to the IAEA".
In accordance with the agreements and IAEA resolutions, reached during the April visit to Iran by the IAEA Director General Muhammed Elbaradei, intensive inspections are being held at Iranian nuclear facilities.
In the report, Teheran is to provide confirmation of the suspension of work to manufacture parts for uranium-enrichment centrifuges and explanations on the fact that traces of uranium have been found in some accessories for the centrifuges earlier supplied to Iran from other countries (the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb Abdul Kadyr Khan has recently made a sensational confession that her has participated in the supply of such centrifuges to Iran, Libya, North Korea).
Materials by Iranian nuclear experts and IAEA inspectors will underlie Elbaradei's upcoming report at a sitting of the IAEA Board of Governors, due in June in Vienna. The "Iranian dossier" will be its central theme.
The deadline for submitting the comprehensive nuclear-programmes report to the Agency expired last week. To this effect, Iranian officials have this week been making statements that "the document is almost ready and very soon will be tabled at the IAEA".
Teheran rejects all accusations by Washington of the intention to create nuclear weapons. Last October Teheran signed the additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is ready to cooperate with the IAEA and hopes that, after the Board-of-Governors sitting in June, the "Iranian dossier" will be closed and cooperation between the Islamic Republic and the Agency will become planned.
