Rouhani noted the openness and transparency of cooperation between Teheran and the International Atomic Energy Agency and said that "we not only truly, openly and in full volume cooperate with the Agency but have even gone ahead of the programmes it has outlined. We have prepared and handed over a comprehensive report on the Iranian nuclear programmes a month before time".
"The people of Iran treat with understanding the IAEA measures and, if at the coming sitting of the Agency's Board of Governors set for June in Vienna, the Islamic Republic feels that political pressure predominates over the legal and technical framework, an atmosphere of mistrust in the international agreements between Iran and the IAEA will indubitably be created", Rouhani said.
"Teheran has fulfilled all the requirements, broadened the framework of interaction and now expects a due answer from the Board of Governors at the coming sitting", he said.
"The closure of the 'Iranian dossier' can pave a better ground for cooperation between Iran and the Agency, strengthen Teheran's positive view on the additional protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed last December", Rouhani said.
In this connection, he asked Russia as a friendly state for close cooperation with Iran at the future sitting of the IAEA Board of Governors.
As regards the Iraqi problem, Rouhani noted that "the inability of the troops of occupation to ensure security in that country, violation of all the international norms and rules especially with regard to the Iraqis in prison, barbarous tortures which are at least unprecedented in the world, desecration of Muslim shrines have led to the worsening of the crisis in Iraq. The hate of the Iraqi nation to the invaders is growing with every day".
"Americans announced the end of war a year ago. Today they use, unfortunately, missiles, warplanes, helicopters, tanks against the innocent people", Rouhani stressed.
He is convinced that "an undelayed withdrawal of the troops of occupation from Iraq and the passing of power to people are the only way to resolve the problems of Iraq".
In turn, Maryasov noted an increasing level of Russian-Iranian economic and political cooperation in recent years.
The head of the Russian diplomatic mission declared Russia's readiness to back the peaceful orientation of the Iranian nuclear programmes and restrain the politisation of the "Iranian dossier".
Maryasov recalled the Russian initiative to convene an international conference with the participation of representatives of the people of Iran, its neighbours, members of the United Nations Security Council, Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the interested parties for resolving the problems of the Iraqi nation.
The sides also considered Russian-Iranian cooperation in the field of nuclear power engineering.
