IAEA Press Releases

Press Release 2006/10

Report on Iran Nuclear Safeguards Sent to Agency´s Board and UN Security Council

28 April 2006 |

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei today released his report Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report was prepared at the request of the United Nation´s Security Council. Its circulation is restricted, and unless the IAEA Board of Governors and Security Council decide otherwise, the Agency can not authorise its release to the public.

On 29 March 2006 the Security Council requested "in 30 days a report from the Director General of the IAEA on the process of Iranian compliance with the steps required by the IAEA Board, to the IAEA Board of Governors and in parallel to the Security Council for its consideration."

The report was simultaneously circulated to the Agency´s Member States and to the Security Council in New York this afternoon.

Related Resources:
» Story: Report on Iran Nuclear Safeguards Sent to Agency´s Board and UN Security Council
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