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Russia, IAEA Have Close, Pragmatic Relationship - Russian Envoy

© AFP 2023 / JOE KLAMARInternational Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) delegates speak in the board room prior to the IAEA meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienn
International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) delegates speak in the board room prior to the IAEA meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienn - Sputnik International
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Russia has established a close pragmatic relationship with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Russian Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Vienna Vladimir Voronkov told Sputnik.

VIENNA (Sputnik) —The envoy's comment comes ahead of the upcoming IAEA diplomats' visit to Russia's Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant, as well as the uranium-enriching Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant, that will take place on July 19-21. Organized by Russia's Rosatom state-owned nuclear energy corporation, the visit is set to become the fourth IAEA international ambassador visit to Russian nuclear enterprises.

"The Russian side and the IAEA administration have established close pragmatic cooperation, including with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano. We have decent staff representation in the agency, a vice director general, whose responsibilities include nuclear energy, and some 90 positions out of 2,500, 55 of them professional, this is better than in Soviet times," Voronkov said.

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The agency's relationship with Russia is well illustrated by Russia's leading position in Iran's deal with the P5+1 group of countries, consisting of the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom plus Germany, that ensured the peaceful nature of Tehran’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, the envoy added.

"The fact that we have leading positions there is in many ways an accomplishment of Rosatom. Innovative approaches by the state corporation's experts enabled the finding of technical resolutions on key problematic areas of the deal. Currently, Rosatom continues to take part in implementing the provisions of the document," Voronkov said.

The IAEA confirmed in January 2016 that Iran had fulfilled its obligations under the nuclear pact. Under the terms of the nuclear deal, Iran agreed to admit IAEA inspectors to locations where the agency seeks to verify the absence of nuclear material and activities. The agency's monitors, including Rosatom experts, are overseeing the removal of excess enriched uranium from the country, as well as decreasing the number of centrifuges, reconfiguring the Arak heavy-water reactor and turning the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant into an isotope production facility for medical and industrial purposes.

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