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World powers must pursue interaction with Iran: Jalili

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The Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has urged world powers to interact with Tehran and recognize its nuclear rights with no conditions in order to get rid of their current problems.

“The international community expects the P5+1 group’s constructive, logical and reliable answers to Iran’s comprehensive proposals [presented] during the Moscow meeting,” Saeed Jalili said in a meeting with Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Almaty before a new round of talks between Iran and the six world powers in the city.

Certain powers should know that by relying on nuclear weapons and exerting various pressures on the Iranian nation, they will not be able to dissuade the Islamic Republic from achieving its nuclear rights, the top Iranian negotiator added.

Iran and the P5+1 – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany – are scheduled to hold negotiations in Almaty on Tuesday. The talks will cover a wide range of topics including Iran’s nuclear energy program.

Iran and the P5+1 group have held several rounds of talks with the main focus on Iran’s nuclear energy program. The last round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group was held in Moscow in June 2012.

Jalili further said that the common stances of Iran and Kazakhstan on global disarmament and the proliferation of nuclear weapons would provide an appropriate ground for the implementation of the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty).

He emphasized that sustainable security in the region depends on cooperation among regional countries to draw up new strategies aimed at countering common threats.

The Kazakh president, for his part, praised Iran’s role in regional stability and economic development and said all member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the NPT signatories should enjoy their right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

He called for an end to double-standard policies on the countries’ nuclear right.

The United States, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Over the false allegation, Washington and the European Union have imposed several rounds of illegal unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Iran refutes the allegation and argues that as a signatory to the NPT and a member of the IAEA, it is entitled to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

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