they have not told us that they need extra time.

If every country continues to exercise that right, we are going in the next 10 or 20 years to have 30 or 40 countries, in my estimation, who are virtual nuclear weapon states,

Sanctions are a bad idea. We are not facing an imminent threat. We need to lower the pitch.

I am still very much hopeful that in the next week an agreement could be reached.

I hope we will find some way to go out from this situation.

Due process, therefore, must take its course before the Secretariat (the IAEA administration) is able to submit a detailed report.

The Iraqi authorities are aware that they don’t have much wiggle room, that the international community is united in its resolve that Iraq must prove that it has no weapons of mass destruction.

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.