(23 Oct 2003)
1. Exteriors of IAEA headquarters
2. IAEA flag
3. IAEA sign
4. Entrance to IAEA headquarters
5. ElBaradei and Salehi meeting media
6. Photographer
7. SOUNDBITE (English): Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA Director-General:
"Ambassador Salehi, the premier representative of Iran to the agency has delivered to me their report on all of Iran's past nuclear activities. As I was promised last week during my visit to Tehran by Mr. Rohani the Secretary General of the National Security Council in Iran...that Iran has decided to provide full disclosure of all its past activities. And I was assured that the report that I got today is a comprehensive and accurate declaration."
8. Cutaway reporter writing
9. Cutaway photographer
10. SOUNDBITE (English): Ambassador Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian representative to the IAEA:
"We have submitted a report that fully discloses all our past activities, peaceful activities, in the nuclear field. And the important thing is to note here is that Iran had to do some of these activities very discreetly, that is because of the sanction that was imposed on Iran for the past 25 years."
11. Cutaway reporter
12. Cutaway cameraman
13. SOUNDBITE (English): Ambassador Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian representative to the IAEA:
"I think Iran and Europe have comprised an 'axis of providence', in other words, they have come to think they can resolve important issues through dialogue, a notion that was promoted by our president. The dialogue of civilisations. So we can resolve international issues through dialogue, rather than letting them get out of control and turn into an international crisis."
14. ElBaradei and Salehi talking to media
STORYLINE:
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said on Thursday that Iran had handed over documents on its past atomic energy activities to the UN nuclear agency.
Talking at a joint media conference in Vienna, the Iranian representative to the IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi told reporters that Iran had submitted a report fully disclosing all of the country's past nuclear activities.
Salehi said Europe and Iran had developed an 'axis of providence', which sought to resolve international issues through dialogue. Earlier in the week Iran told the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France visiting Tehran to put pressure on the Iranian authorities, that they would suspend uranium enrichment and sign a protocol allowing spot checks of its nuclear programs.
Neither Salehi nor ElBaradei would elaborate on the contents of the package of documents, which Iran turned over ahead of an Oct. 31 deadline to prove its nuclear programme is peaceful.
ElBaradei said he expected the information to answer all outstanding questions about Iran's nuclear activities, including the origin of traces of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium found in at least two different sites inside the country, which he is particularly concerned about.
Iran insists the contamination was imported on equipment it uses for peaceful nuclear purposes but has resisted IAEA requests that it name the country of origin of the equipment so that experts can try and match isotope samples.
Iran previously had insisted it would continue enriching uranium to non-weapons levels as part of a programme it says is aimed entirely at producing electricity.
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