NAM Renews Support for Tehran's N. Rights

Source : Fars News Agency

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), in a statement, extended full support for Iran's peaceful nuclear program.

In the statement, NAM member states voiced their support for Iran's peaceful nuclear program, and said diplomacy and dialogue are the only solution to Iran's nuclear issue.

NAM statement which was read in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting on Tuesday afternoon, stressed that NAM underlines inalienable rights of all countries for development, research, production and use of atomic energy for peaceful goals without any kind of discrimination and upon lawful obligations.

The statement said NAM expresses its appreciation for Director General of IAEA Yukiya Amano for his report concerning implementation of safeguard agreement by Iran and for his impartiality and professionalism of the secretariat of the agency in its activities about implementation of Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in Iran.

NAM confirmed again immunity of peaceful nuclear activities, and called any kind of attack or threat to attack against nuclear installations as violation of international laws and principles of the UN Charter and regulations of IAEA.

NAM persuaded secretariat to refrain from publishing technical details concerning sensitive information in the director general report.

It welcomed constant cooperation between IAEA and Iran, as it was mentioned in the latest report of the director general.

NAM is comprised of some 120 member states and 17 observer countries.

NAM is an international organization of states considering themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. NAM is the largest grouping of countries outside of the United Nations.

NAM member states represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and comprise 55% of the world population, particularly countries considered to be developing or part of the Third World.

Iran received NAM rotating presidency at the opening ceremony of the NAM summit in Tehran on August 26 from Egypt for a period of three years.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and the western embargos for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the hran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.