China voices support for Iran N-program

“Iran is a party to the [Nuclear] Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, said on Monday.

Hong further called for more efforts on all sides to resolve the West’s standoff over Iran’s nuclear energy program.

“China thinks that dialogue and cooperation are the only effective means of resolving the Iranian nuclear [energy] issue,” he added.

Hong’s comments came after Iran and the P5+1 kicked off their third round of talks in Moscow.

The Iranian delegation is led by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, and the P5+1 is headed by EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton.

Iran and the P5+1 held three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in late May after an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.

The United States and some of its allies have imposed a series of sanctions against Iran, claiming that the country’s nuclear energy program may include a military component.

Tehran refutes the allegation, noting that frequent inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency have never found any evidence of diversion in Iran’s nuclear energy program toward military purposes.

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