Beijing, Sept 13, IRNA – China Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei here Wednesday stressed need for continuation of so-called G5+1 negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s (peaceful) nuclear program.
According to IRNA Thursday morning news team, Hong Lei added, “It is now time to adopt an appropriate strategy for the negotiations with Iran so that positive result would be achieved.”
Both China and Russia during the last week sessions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Governors Council emphasized the need for continuation of negotiations aimed at solving the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic ways.
The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman further reiterated, “Presently the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear issue have reached a key point and talks and cooperation are the only solution to this issue.”
He added, “China plays a positive role in Iran’s nuclear issue at the IAEA and Beijing hopes that the matter would be approached based on objective facts and quite justly.”
The Chinese diplomacy apparatus spokesman said, “The Chinese government welcomes the expansion of cooperation between the IAEA and Iran so that trust would as soon as possible be built regarding the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.”
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 NPT entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions 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 the sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
