“The IAEA and Iran have agreed to hold a technical meeting in Tehran on March 9, 2015,” the IAEA said in a statement on Thursday.
The IAEA delegation will be headed by IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards Tero Varjoranta.
The last technical meeting between the two sides was held in November last year.
Last Monday, the IAEA once again verified lack of any diversion towards non-peaceful purposes in Iran’s declared nuclear material.
“Concerning safeguards implementation in Iran, the agency continues to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement,” IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said in an address to the agency’s Board of Governors in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.
Late in February, Iran's Envoy to the IAEA Reza Najafi announced that the transparent nature of Tehran's nuclear program was confirmed in the IAEA's meeting.
Najafi described the IAEA's technical meeting as "useful", and said it focused solely on technical issues and dedicated its time to exploring the recent report of the UN nuclear watchdog's chief.
He stressed that the meeting acknowledged that the whole of Iran’s nuclear program including installations, equipment and material were totally monitored by the IAEA experts, adding that this proved Iran’s transparency in its nuclear activities.
The Iranian official further pointed out that the meeting also reviewed the recent meeting between Amano and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif which took place on the sideline of a security conference in Munich recently.
Najafi said the meeting stressed the need for continuation of nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers until the ultimate settlement of the issue.
