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P5+1 urged to pay attention to Iran N-rights

01 June 2012 03:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A Russian official has called on the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) to pay attention to Iran’s nuclear rights in their upcoming talks with the Islamic Republic in Moscow, APA reports quoting Press TV.

â€œIran has never conducted nuclear activities beyond the limits stipulated by the NPT (nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), and this fact should be considered as the basis for the [next round of] negotiations between the country and the P5+1 group,â€ said Alexander Polischuk, the chairman of the Iran-Russia friendship group, in an interview with IRNA on Thursday.

Iran and the P5+1-- Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany -- held three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad on May 23 and 24 after an earlier round of negotiations in Istanbul in mid-April.

The two sides agreed to hold another round of talks in Moscow on June 18-19.

The Russian official also noted that the Islamic Republic has made â€œsignificant progressâ€ in the area of nuclear technology over the past years and thus the P5+1 group should offer it a package â€œproportionate to its current capabilities.â€

On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that the P5+1 must recognize Tehran’s nuclear energy program in the forthcoming talks as the country will not budge from its position.

Iran argues that as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a committed signatory to the NPT, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.