'Iran- IAEA recent negotiations yielded good results'

Iran's Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh announced that the Iranian and IAEA experts' recent negotiations have yielded good results, reiterating the necessity for continued talks between the two sides, Fars news reported.

"The Islamic Republic is bound to international rules and regulations and cooperated with the IAEA inspectors in two rounds of meeting; recent meetings between Iranian officials and IAEA inspectors had good results but reaching a final agreement needs more negotiations and time; Iran answered all legal and technical questions regarding its nuclear activities," Soltaniyeh said on Wednesday.

He also underlined that Iran is committed to continue talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but hostile countries should not manipulate these positive relations, Iran's Envoy to the IAEA.

A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency headed by IAEA Deputy Director-General Herman Nackaerts arrived in Iran on Monday.

Before boarding the plane at Vienna International Airport, Nackarets expressed the hope that he and his accompanying delegation will have a constructive visit to Tehran.

Nackarets is heading a five-member delegation comprising the IAEA experts who will pay a two-day visit to Iran.

The IAEA official said that resolving Iran's nuclear case needs time due to the fact that it is a complicated issue.

Earlier, Nackaerts had said at Vienna airport upon arrival from his last visit to Iran in January that the UN nuclear watchdog would send another delegation to Iran in the near future.

"But of course there is still a lot of work to be done, and so we have planned another trip in the very near future," Nackaerts said, following his visit to Iran to discuss Tehran's nuclear program.

The deputy director-general of the UN nuclear agency also said that both sides are "committed" to resolving all outstanding issues.

"We had three days of intensive discussions about all our priorities. We are committed to resolving all the outstanding issues and the Iranians said they are committed too," he said at the time.


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