Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday that Yukiya Amano’s visit to Tehran will be at the invitations extended to the IAEA chief earlier by the minister himself as well as one by Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi.
Salehi highlighted that the IAEA director general will hold talks with him, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, and Abbasi.
Iran’s Ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh had confirmed on Friday that Amano will pay a visit to Iran on Sunday.
He said the IAEA director general is visiting Tehran for talks with Iranian officials on “issues of mutual interest and a closer cooperation” between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog.
Herman Nackaerts, the IAEA deputy director general for safeguards, and Rafael Mariano Grossi, assistant director general for policy, will be accompanying Amano on his trip to Tehran.
Earlier this week, Iran and IAEA officials met in the Austrian capital, Vienna, for talks aimed at, according to Soltanieh, devising a framework for answering questions about Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
Amano’s visit comes ahead of the May 23 talks between Iran and the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany) in Baghdad.
The latest round of the talks between Iran and the six members of the P5+1 group was held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on April 14. Both sides hailed the discussions as constructive.
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