By NNN-IRNA
United Nations : Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticizing efforts by some countries to raise baseless allegations about Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.
The letter was simultaneously sent to members of the UN Security Council as well as the international body’s General Assembly Wednesday.
Referring to Iran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mottaki said those countries that were misleading public opinion of the international community about the peaceful nature of Iran’s civilian nuclear activities should make up for those mistakes.
Following the release on Feb 22 of the latest report of the IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei about Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities, certain UN Security Council permanent members led by the United States, mounted their pressure to push for adoption of a third resolution against Iran by the Security Council.
ElBaradei has stressed in his 11-page report that the UN nuclear watchdog has verified the non-diversion of Tehran’s peaceful nuclear programme.
The agency has “managed to clarify all the remaining outstanding issues, which are the scope and nature of Iran’s enrichment programme,” the report said stressing that the IAEA has “made good progress in clarifying the outstanding issues that had to do with Iran’s past nuclear activities.”
Criticizing baseless allegations of certain UNSC members against Iran, Mottaki said in the letter that instrumental use of the international bodies would not force the people of Iran to abandon their legitimate rights.
Mottaki added that ElBaradei’s latest report has proved that previous resolutions adopted against Iran by the UN Security Council lacked any technical or legal justification and were only a result of political intentions of certain countries.
Mottaki warned that continuation of this process would further discredit the Security Council and undermine the IAEA status as an international body which is responsible to monitor nuclear activities of its member states.