The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) made the remark on Thursday during a press conference following the end of the two-day multifaceted talks between Iran and the representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - China, Russia, Britain, France, the US - plus Germany (P5+1) in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
“As an active signatory to the NPT, the Islamic Republic of Iran insists on its right to use peaceful nuclear energy, particularly, the enrichment of uranium,” Jalili said.
He added that Tehran regards as “acceptable” any discussion and cooperation about the nuclear energy, but it is also necessary to win the confidence of the Iranian nation.
Jalili noted that following the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) refusal to provide Iran with 20-percent enriched uranium to be used for peaceful purposes in Tehran’s Research Reactor, Iran managed to acquire the technology to enrich uranium to 20 percent and turn it into fuel rods.
“This is a completely peaceful activity under the supervision of the IAEA. During our two-day talks, all (negotiating sides) emphasized that it is the Islamic Republic’s right which cannot be denied,” Iran’s negotiator pointed out.
“In the [Baghdad] talks, the two sides held serious and fundamental discussions. We presented serious suggestions for cooperation on Iran's nuclear energy program,” he said.
“But what is important and should be addressed regarding cooperation with Iran is the issue of observing the rights of all nations,” added the senior Iranian official.
Iran and the six major world powers wrapped up their two-day comprehensive talks in Baghdad on Thursday and agreed to hold another round of negotiations in Moscow on June 18-19.
The Iranian negotiating delegation was headed by the SNSC secretary, and the delegations of the P5+1 were headed by the European Union's Foreign Policy chief, Catherine Ashton.
On the first day of the negotiations, Iran offered a comprehensive package to the P5+1, while a European Union spokesman, Michael Mann, told Press TV that the group’s representatives put forward a set of new proposals to Tehran.
The previous round of the talks between Iran and the P5+1 was held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on April 14.
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has once more asserted the Iranian nation’s right to enrich uranium, stressing that enrichment is an inalienable right of all signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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