IAEA Experts In Tehran To Seek Safeguards Solution

Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Massimo Aparo, heading a delegation, arrived in Tehran to seek a safeguards solution for Arak reactor, IRNA reported.

Aparo is chairman of the IAEA Department of Safeguards for region B where Iran is located.

An informed source at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) who talked on the condition of anonymity told IRNA this morning that Aparo will discuss seven major topics particularly ways to find a safeguards solution for Arak reactor in a meeting with the organization’s officials later today.

Meanwhile, the AEOI spokesman BehrouzKamalvandi said on Sunday that Aparoˈs visit to Iran is aimed at compiling a report on the start of the first step of the Geneva Joint Plan of Action singed between Iran and 5+1 in November 2013.

During their two-day stay, Aparo and his team of inspectors will visit Saghand mine and Ardakan Yellowcake production – uranium ore concentrate processing – plant, both in the central Yazd province, he noted.

Kamalvandi also said that the visit would take place in line with a joint agreement signed on November 11, 2013, by Head of the AEOI Ali Akbar Salehi and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano on mutual cooperation.

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