(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iran’s Fars news agency, quoting summit secretary Mehi Akhoundzadeh, reported that Ban would visit the Natanz uranium enrichment site near Isfahan, in central Iran, during the summit. Ban will be in Tehran from tomorrow until Friday.
“There is no such plans for a visit of this kind by the secretary general while he is in Iran for the summit,” said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky in New York, reacting to the Fars report.
“If the Iranian authorities prepare to give access to others, not least of course to those from the International Atomic Energy Agency, that would be welcome.”
Nesirky said it would be up to the IAEA to decide “with regard to the access it may already have to the location”.
Nesirky said Ban will use the opportunity while in Tehran to speak with Iran’s leaders at the highest levels, including the Supreme Leader, on international concerns about Iran’s nuclear capability, human rights, terrorism and Israel.
The Iranian government was drumming up support from the 120 NAM members attending the summit, at which Iran was to assume leadership of the group from Egypt for the next three years.
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