The ball is very much in Iraq’s court,

The message … coming from the Security Council is that time is very critical, … and that we need to show progress in our report, which will be due on the 14th of this month.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

to fulfill its verification responsibilities in a credible manner.

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.

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.

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.

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.