Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Tuesday that China supports
a peaceful solution to Iran's nuclear issue through diplomatic
negotiations.
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Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang
Jiechi (L) in Teheran, capital of Iran, November 13,
2007.
"China stands for the maintenance of the international
non-proliferation system and supports a peaceful solution to Iran's
nuclear issue through diplomatic negotiations," Yang said during
his meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
China believes that Iran has the rights to peacefully use
nuclear power and appreciates Iran's repeated declaration of no
intention to develop nuclear weapons and its cooperation with the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yang said.
Yang, who arrived in Tehran earlier Tuesday, told Ahmadinejad
that China hopes that Iran will strengthen its cooperation with the
IAEA and make progress in its contact with the European Union
(EU).
China also hopes that all parties concerned will show
flexibility and make efforts to achieve a peaceful solution to the
Iranian nuclear issue, Yang said.
For his part, Ahmadinejad said that Iran is making good
cooperation with the IAEA and is willing to maintain active
contacts with the EU.
Iran is also ready to continue its communication with China and
other sides over its nuclear issue, Ahmadinejad said.
In the day, Yang also met his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr
Mottaki and Supreme National Security Council Secretary, Saeed
Jalili, on Sino-Iranian relations as well as regional and
international issues of common concern.
(Xinhua News Agency November 14, 2007)
