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Iranian parliament to host IAEA chief on Sunday

Politics Materials 19 September 2015 22:40 (UTC +04:00)
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano is due to attend a meeting at the Iranian parliament during his Sunday visit to Tehran
Iranian parliament to host IAEA chief on Sunday

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano is due to attend a meeting at the Iranian parliament during his Sunday visit to Tehran, Fars News reported.

Amano will travel to Tehran tomorrow to hold talks with Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and other Iranian officials on ways to implement a cooperation roadmap plan signed between Tehran and the IAEA in July.

Earlier this week, the Iranian legislature asked the foreign ministry to invite Amano to the parliament to answer the lawmakers' questions.

Alireza Zakani, the head of the parliament's special commission to study the nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers clinched in Vienna on July 14, in a letter to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called for the ministry's official invitation to Amano to take part in the commission to answer the legislators' questions.

In his letter, Zakani underlined that the meeting would also be a good opportunity for Amano to become acquainted with the Iranian MPs' viewpoints.

In response to his letter, the Iranian foreign ministry announced on Saturday that Amano will be present at the parliament on Sunday afternoon.

The Iranian parliament's request to meet Amano was made after he took part in a US Senate meeting early August to answer their questions on the IAEA agreements with Iran.

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