TEHRAN -- On the sidelines of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly, Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki called on his counterparts from various European countries to support Tehran’s recent deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

In a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday, Mottaki urged the 5+1 group (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) to support IAEA cooperation with Iran, the Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department reported on Friday.
Under the August 21 deal, the IAEA and Tehran agreed on a timetable for addressing the ambiguities about Iran’s nuclear activities. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei called the agreement “an important step in the right direction.”
The foreign ministers of the 5+1 group started a new round of talks in New York on Friday to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.
In his meeting with Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, Mottaki said that European countries should be on guard against the efforts of certain powers to obstruct the process of cooperation between Iran and the IAEA.
“The best decision that the 5+1 group can make to solve the nuclear issue is to support ElBaradei in his efforts to continue the cooperation between Tehran and the agency,” he said in a meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen.
Verhagen also stressed the need to support ElBaradei at this juncture.
Mottaki told Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn that it is not possible for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, “however a new round of constructive cooperation has been started with the IAEA.”
Asselborn stated that continuation of the cooperation is the best way to clear up the ambiguities.
Slovakian Foreign Minister Jan Kubis noted that the solution to the nuclear issue should be sought in the IAEA not in the UN Security Council.
Kubis welcomed the Iran-IAEA deal, saying, “Although the U.S. is making efforts to force the Security Council to hinder Iran’s nuclear program, we believe that the solution to the conflict can only be sought in the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
The Iranian foreign minister insisted that the new deal can answer every possible question within two or three months