Iran may leave Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

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If the UN Security Council adopts a resolution, requesting interruption of uranium enrichment by Tehran, Iranian parliament will consider leaving of Treaty of the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Iranian Majilis Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy Chairman Alaeddin Borujerdi is quoted by Voice of Russia Radio as stating on July 18. According to him, the UNSC should not create such situation around Iranian “nuclear dossier,” in which Iran will be able to reconsider its international obligations in the nuclear sphere. If Iran is robbed of its right (for a peaceful nuclear technology), it will not have any reason to stay the NPT member state. Also, he stressed that G8 statement on Iran is “unacceptable and illogical” in connection with Iran considering package of the six parties’ proposals.

It is worth stressing that it is said, in particular, in G8 chair’s statement, adopted as a result of St. Petersburg G8 summit: “We addressed the proliferation implications of Iran's advanced nuclear programme and confirmed our commitment to see those implications resolved. We fully supported the proposals presented to Iran in June 2006 on behalf of China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America with the support of the High Representative of the European Union for a long-term comprehensive agreement with Iran based on cooperation and mutual respect. Iran not having shown willingness to engage in serious discussion of those proposals and having failed to take the steps needed to allow negotiations to begin, specifically the suspension of all enrichment related and reprocessing activities, as required by the IAEA and supported in the United Nations Security Council Presidential Statement, we supported the decision of those countries' Ministers to return the issue of Iran to the United Nations Security Council. Iran has a serious choice to make and we invited it to make the right decision — to react positively to the concrete proposals presented to it on 6 June 2006.”