Russia, West Differ on UN Report on Iran's Nuclear Program
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
By GEORGE JAHN, ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA — Mar 8, 2016, 3:35 PM ET
Russia and the West overcame differences to strike a landmark nuclear deal with Iran but are now divided on how well the U.N. atomic agency is reporting on whether Tehran is meeting its commitments. Western nations want more details while Moscow opposes their push.
Because the U.S. and its five negotiating partners want to avoid conflicts that could complicate Iranian compliance of a deal that was years in the making, their differences are mostly playing out behind the scenes.
Vladimir Voronkov, Moscow's chief delegate to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, which is monitoring the deal, acknowledges there is a dispute that could affect the amount of information made public about Iran's nuclear program in the future.
"In our view it's an absolutely balanced document," Voronkov said ahead of a discussion of the latest IAEA report on Iran by the agency's 35-nation board rescheduled to Wednesday from Tuesday. "But some of our colleagues would like to have more details."
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