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Iran’s nuclear chief to visit Brussels

Politics Materials 7 September 2016 16:45 (UTC +04:00)
Iran’s nuclear chief to visit Brussels

Tehran, Iran, Sept. 7

By Mehdi Sepahvand – Trend:

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi will visit the City of Brussels early the next week, according to AEOI spokesman Behrooz Kamalvandi.

The visit is going to serve talks with officials from the European Union’s Directorate-General for Energy and will pursue Iran’s nuclear cooperation with the EU within the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Kamalvandi said, Etemad newspaper reported Sept. 7.

The spokesman said that Salehi may visit another country as well after Belgium, but did not provide any further details.

Further commenting on follow-ups to the JCPOA, Kamalvandi said the upcoming Joint JCPOA Commission meeting will be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The commission is comprised of a body of representatives from Iran and the group 5+1 (the US, the UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) who monitor the implementation of the JCPOA and hold periodic sessions to review its progress.

He also commented on Iran-Russia cooperation to build two nuclear power plants in Iran and said the bricklaying of the power plants will be held Sept. 10 in Bushehr, southwestern Iran, with Iranian and Russian representatives.

The power plants will take 10 years to build. The construction of one of the plants will begin this week with the bricklaying ceremony. The other plant will undergo construction two years later. The two power plants are provided with $10 billion investment.

According to agreements between Tehran and Moscow, Russia will procure nuclear fuel for the two power plants in their first 10 years of operation.

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