June 17, 2022
The following is the full text of the resolution on Iran adopted June 8 by the 35-member Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on a vote of 30-2 with three abstentions.
The Board of Governors,
(a) Commending the continued professional and impartial efforts of the IAEA Director General and the Secretariat to implement Iran’s NPT Safeguards Agreement,
(b) Emphasizing the essential and independent role of the IAEA in verifying Iran’s compliance with its safeguards obligations,
(c) Stressing the importance of Iran’s compliance with its safeguards obligations and the need for Iran to cooperate fully and in a timely manner with the Agency with a view to clarifying and resolving the long outstanding safeguards issues detailed in the Director General’s report GOV/2022/26,
(d) Noting the Director General‘s deep concern that undeclared nuclear material had been present at several undeclared locations in Iran and that its current location(s) are not known to the Agency, and his assessment that nuclear material used in Iran was not declared as required under Iran’s NPT Safeguards Agreement,
(e) Recalling the Board of Governors’ resolution of 19 June 2020 contained in GOV/2020/34 which called upon Iran to fully cooperate with the Agency and to satisfy the Agency’s requests without any further delay,
(f) Noting the Director General’s conclusion that unless and until Iran provides technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at three undeclared locations and informs the Agency of the current location(s) of the nuclear material and/or contaminated equipment, the Agency cannot confirm the correctness and completeness of Iran’s declarations under its NPT Safeguards Agreement,
(g) Noting further the Agency’s readiness to continue to engage without delay with Iran to resolve the outstanding safeguards issues,
- Strongly supports the Agency’s continued efforts aimed at providing assurance of the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme;
- Expresses profound concern that the safeguards issues related to these three undeclared locations remain outstanding due to insufficient substantive cooperation by Iran, despite numerous interactions with the Agency;
- Calls upon Iran to act on an urgent basis to fulfil its legal obligations and, without delay, take up the Director General’s offer of further engagement to clarify and resolve all outstanding safeguards issues;
- Notes that the provision by Iran of all of the technically credible information, documents and evidence the IAEA requires to make its assessments is essential for the Secretariat to be in position to report the issues as no longer outstanding and thereby remove the need for the Board’s consideration and action on these issues; and
5. Requests the Director General to continue to report to the Board of Governors so long as the above issues remain outstanding.
