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Iran wants to stay in NPT and resist sanctions, says Ahmadinejad
Iran prefers to remain within the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and resist UN sanctions peacefully, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Spanish television yesterday.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:00 April 24, 2007
- In the live interview from Tehran, Ahmadinejad also indicated that Iran would prefer peaceful resistance to UN Security Council sanctions aimed at its nuclear programme.
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Madrid: Iran prefers to remain within the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and resist UN sanctions peacefully, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Spanish television yesterday.
"We don't like to go out of [the framework of] law but we should defend the rights of our nation," Ahmadinejad said in Persian after being asked by TVE whether Iran may abandon the treaty.
In the live interview from Tehran, Ahmadinejad also indicated that Iran would prefer peaceful resistance to UN Security Council sanctions aimed at its nuclear programme.
"We are obliged to defend ourselves. A nation has this logical and legitimate right, on the basis of dialogue and peaceful defence," he said, in comments translated into Spanish by an interpreter. "There are some countries which want a monopoly of production of nuclear fuel, and I think that's the root of all the problems," he said.
Iran's top negotiator Ali Larijani and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet in Turkey tomorrow for talks on Iran's nuclear programme. It will be the first time they have met since more UN sanctions were imposed on Iran last month.
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