el-Baradei: Bushehr not 'at the center of international concern' (file photo)
29 June 2004 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin met today with the visiting director-general of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Muhammad el-Baradei, to discuss the nonproliferation of nuclear technologies.
El-Baradei said there is nothing worrying about concerning Russia's cooperation with Iran in building a nuclear power facility in the Iranian city of Bushehr, an issue the United States has brought up on several occasions.
El-Baradei said Russian-Iranian cooperation on the Bushehr plant is a bilateral project "not currently at the center of international concern."
El-Baradei said he and Putin discussed mainly issues concerning the nonproliferation of nuclear technologies and the establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East region.
(ITAR-TASS/AFP)
[For el-Baradei's statements on a disputed Iranian military site, click here]
El-Baradei said Russian-Iranian cooperation on the Bushehr plant is a bilateral project "not currently at the center of international concern."
El-Baradei said he and Putin discussed mainly issues concerning the nonproliferation of nuclear technologies and the establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East region.
(ITAR-TASS/AFP)
[For el-Baradei's statements on a disputed Iranian military site, click here]