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イランのウラン濃縮断念とＩＡＥＡ追加議定書署名に関する共同宣言について、ＩＡ
ＥＡのエル・バラダイ事務局長が行った記者会見の内容が、米国の軍縮協会(Arms
Control Association)から発表されました。これによると、ＩＡＥＡ事務局長も、同
宣言については100%納得していないようで、とくに、イランの濃縮活動に関する「モ
ラトリウム」（一時停止）ということも言っており、やはり今後のイラン政府の実際
の出方を見極めないと良く分からないと思われます。ご参考まで。
--KK

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IAEA Director-General Welcomes Iran's Reported Commitment to Cooperate with
UN Nuclear Inspectors

An Interview With IAEA Director-General Mohamed Elbaradei


ACT: Obviously, it looks like there's been some good news this morning
coming out of Tehran. I just wanted to get your reaction to Iran's
announcement that it will allow IAEA inspections and suspend its uranium
enrichment activities.

ElBaradei: Yeah, you know, it's encouraging news coming out…[but] I still
need to be briefed on exactly…the commitment by Iran. However, this is in
line with their commitment to me last week that they are ready to come with
a full declaration of all their past nuclear activities and they are ready
to conclude a protocol to regulate their future nuclear activities.
And if the news today is correct that they are also ready to suspend, or
apply a moratorium on their enrichment activities as a confidence building
measure, as called by the [the IAEA Board of Governors]…in their decision
last month, then I think this will open the way for hopefully a
comprehensive settlement of the Iranian issues through verification and
through political dialogue.

ACT: If this does play out in term of the details that you are hearing,
would this address the fundamental concerns that the international community
has about Iran's nuclear programs?

ElBaradei: Well I think we still have to get the declaration and make
sure…that we need to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure
that it is comprehensive and accurate. So that would take care of the past
activities. We then also need to have the protocol and make sure that all
future activities in Iran would be under our verification. As you know, we
never have 100 percent certainty, and that's why we would like to have in
Iran and everywhere else a continuous process of inspections and we need the
authority of the protocol to enable us in a country with an extensive
knowledge and program to do a comprehensive job.

So yes, if we get a comprehensive declaration, and we are able to verify
that it is accurate and complete and if we get the protocol and we are able
to implement the protocol in all future activities in Iran, then I think
this would be a leap forward in terms of the international community's
concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

ACT: Have you discussed the latest talks at all with the foreign ministers?

ElBaradei: I think I am going to have that…either tonight or tomorrow.