Iran Agrees With Quartet’s Position
TEHRAN
(RIA Novosti, by Nikolai Terekhov) — Iran agrees with the position
of Russia, France, Germany and Spain on the non-proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction, official spokesman for the Iranian
Foreign Ministry Hamid Reza Asefi said on Saturday.
"We agree
with the above-mentioned states that no country should give up
peaceful trends in the development of nuclear technologies,"
he stressed.
"We expect
Great Britain, France and Germany to keep sticking to their obligations
and to respect Iran’s right to possess peaceful nuclear technologies,"
Asefi said commenting on the statements issued by Russian President
Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French President
Jacques Chirac and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero at the summit in Paris.
"Iran
has often claimed that it does not strive for possessing weapons
of mass destruction and all Iranian nuclear programs have peaceful
purposes," the Iranian diplomat noted.