Yukiya Amano Quotes

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

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• Long
• History
• Complicated

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

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• Perspective
• Europe
• Iran

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

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• Light
• Water
• Working

Iran has not provided any explanations that enable the agency to clarify the outstanding practical measures.

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• Iran
• Measures
• Explanations

I invite member states which are in a position to do so to make the necessary funding available as soon as possible in order to ensure smooth continuation of our activities.

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• Activities
• Member
• Funding

The agency is ready to accelerate resolution of all outstanding issues.

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• Issues
• Resolution
• Agency

This paves the way for the IAEA to begin verifying and monitoring Iran’s nuclear-related commitments under the agreement, as requested by the U.N. Security Council and authorized by the IAEA Board.

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• Agreement
• Nuclear
• Verifying

There is now a historic opportunity to resolve the Iran nuclear issue. I hope that full use will be made of this opportunity.

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• Opportunity
• Resolve
• Nuclear

We continue to verify the non-divergence of nuclear material declared by Iran but we are still not in a position to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful purpose.

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• Peaceful
• Iran
• Nuclear

I call upon Iran to increase its cooperation with the agency and to provide timely access to all relevant information, documentation, sites, material and personnel.

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• Information
• Access
• Iran