Beijing, May 25: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today Iran’s letter of notification to the UN atomic watchdog on a nuclear fuel swap deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil had “a number of deficiencies.”
“We discussed at some length the shortcomings of the recent proposal put forward by Iran in its letter to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),” Clinton told reporters following two days of strategic talks with China.
“There are a number of deficiencies which do not answer the concerns of the international community.”
On Monday, Iran formally notified the IAEA of its response to the nuclear fuel swap deal, under which it would ship some low enriched uranium to Turkey in return for higher grade fuel for a Tehran research reactor.
The IAEA itself did not immediately comment on the content of the letter.
–Agencies