This is simply a new phase of diplomacy, an extension of diplomatic efforts to find a solution.

The best protection against nuclear weapons, and the only way to prevent future Hiroshimas and Nagasakis, is to bring about an end to all nuclear weapons.

It also makes it very clear that should any serious failures come to light in the future, these will be taken by the board with the seriousness that it deserves.

For the last three years we have been doing intensive verification in Iran, and even after three years I am not yet in a position to make a judgment on the peaceful nature of the...

We have seen issues in Iran that we need to understand before we can say that we are satisfied that all activities in Iran are exclusively for peaceful purposes.

Escalation is not going to help a situation that is highly volatile in the Middle East.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I’ve always said this is the only way forward.

We still need to assure ourselves through access to documents, individuals (and) locations that we have seen all that we ought to see and that there is nothing fishy, if you like, about the program.

an opportunity to cough up whatever they have left of weapons of mass destruction.

But if the material is there or is stored, it will not send a signature. It will not leave fingerprints and that will be difficult to detect through technical means. We will have to rely...

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Fast-growing global energy demands, an increased emphasis on the security of energy supply and the risk of climate change are driving a renewed consideration in many quarters towards investment in nuclear power.

Iraq is committed to declare all it possesses regarding weapons of mass destruction, if it still has any of them … and will also declare all of its activities in the chemical, biological and nuclear...

an opportunity to attempt to recover the explosives.

to fulfill its verification responsibilities in a credible manner.

Lots of that is taking place both on the hands of national governments, lack of good governance, suppression of human rights. Lots of that is coming also from the outside. And if you have that...

I urge all parties to use this opportunity to create the necessary conditions to return to negotiations.

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

In view of recent report about terrorist plans to build and deploy radiological dispersion devices and given the inadequacy of source control, … it is clear that additional security measures are urgently needed.

I hope that once these issues have been clarified that Iran will be in a position to sign the protocol.

up to the (U.N.) Security Council, up to the members of the agency to take whatever measures to bring back North Korea into compliance with their non-proliferation obligation.

Iran will accelerate its efforts in the next couple of weeks to provide clarity to the issues that we need to clarify before I write the report.

The board is giving (North Korea) one more chance to come into compliance,

the opaque nature of that Saddam Hussein regime.

We need Iran to use maximum transparency because there are a lot of question marks about its program. They need to be assured that they can use nuclear power for electricity, but the international community...

It’s a rapidly deteriorating situation,

As the talks proceed, the relevant parties are required to take into view the security, political and economic consequences of their discussions.

I think that would be close to our estimation,

We’d like to get concrete evidence as to where we go to inspect.

We’re clueless as to what is happening, … not only in regard to the past program but (also) current activity.

This is clearly a key in our fight to control proliferation … to protect ourselves from nuclear terrorists,

but we cannot be 100 percent sure.

It would also bring India closer as an important partner in the non-proliferation regime.

We are very conscious of the impatience of the international community,

They need to go out of their way to prove through whatever possible means that they have no weapons of mass destruction.

Everybody is looking forward to a political settlement, What we need at this stage is cool- headed approaches. We need for people to lower the rhetoric.

We discussed this issue with Iraqi officials, and we told them that this declaration should be comprehensive, concise and clear, as the Security Council mentions, and it should include all factors that the Security Council...

It would be a milestone, timely for ongoing efforts to consolidate the nonproliferation regime, combat nuclear terrorism and strengthen nuclear safety.

a reckless, reckless step.

[Iran’s declaration, it said, didn’t refer] to its possession of P-2 centrifuge design drawings and to associated research, manufacturing, and mechanical testing activities … activities related to experiments on the production and intended use of...

We don’t see a clear and present danger.

We need to re-examine our rules of the game. We need to adjust our defenses … The first line of defense is having adequate protection of nuclear material.

I think the message from the board … was very clear,

the agency has not performed any verification activities in (North Korea), and cannot therefore provide any level of assurance about the non-diversion of nuclear material.

Iran needs to go back to the negotiating table.

If we are able to put the authority and information together and bring to closure (the) issue peacefully and avoid a war I think that would be the best outcome for everybody concerned.

I work on facts. We fortunately were proven right in Iraq, we were the only ones that said at the time that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons, and I hope this time people will...

We have our inspectors still on the ground, still monitoring the freeze of North Korean nuclear activities.

As things stand, I do not expect the board to adopt a resolution on the Iranian issue unless there is a breakthrough and unless there is a positive agreement.