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Summary Tehran's envoy to the UN atomic agency said his country is ready for IAEA visit next month.
Tehrans envoy to the UN atomic agency said Thursday he would meet the watchdogs chief nuclear inspector in Vienna in the first week of January to arrange a visit to Iran as soon as possible.As soon as the holidays are over we will sit down with Mr (Herman) Nackaerts and arrange the visit, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehrans envoy to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.As far as we are concerned his team can come as soon as they are ready, Soltanieh said, adding that the meeting would happen in the first week of January and that the visit could take place later the same month.He said Iran had renewed an earlier invitation despite its disappointment that inspectors had not visited ahead of a November IAEA report on Irans suspected covert nuclear weapons activities.Once again we have decided to show political will and our good intentions to cooperate with the IAEA in order to demonstrate transparency about the exclusively peaceful nature of our activities, the envoy said.He added that he wanted the visit by inspectors to ensure that past mistakes are not repeated... and to end this endless process once and for all.News earlier this week of Irans renewed invitation to inspectors was greeted with scepticism by Western diplomats to the IAEA, who expressed doubts that Iran would help clear up issues in the November 8 report.
