'Iran agrees to resolve nuclear issues'

VIENNA: Iran has agreed to resolve outstanding questions about its nuclear programme, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) said.

IAEA released details of an accord reached with Iran after several rounds of negotiations over the past months. Iran wrote in the five-page document posted on the IAEA’s website on Monday that a timeline was agreed upon for resolving questions regarding Iran’s P1-P2 centrifuges.

Iran also said it had agreed to co-operate regarding a document found by IAEA inspectors that detailed technology employed in weapons design and further outstanding issues once the other files were closed. Iran said in the report that the sensitive chapter of Iran’s past plutonium experiments was closed.

“On 20 August 2007 the Agency stated that earlier statements made by Iran are consistent with the Agency’s findings, and thus this matter is resolved,” Iran said, adding that it expected the IAEA to publicly announce the development in an upcoming report.