New Delhi: As Iran vowed to press ahead with uranium enrichment despite UN economic sanctions, Ministry of External Affairs has come up with a statement on the issue in New Delhi.
The UNSC on Saturday unanimously decided to impose sanctions against Iran in response to its uranium-enrichment activities, which Tehran says are for peaceful purposes but which other countries contend are driven by military ambitions.
India on Sunday said it was ''studying'' the implications of the UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions against Iran and asserted that all possible efforts should be made to address the issue through peaceful dialogue and negotiations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should play a central role in resolving the outstanding issues said the External Affairs Ministry in a statement.
Tehran had undertaken certain obligations that its nuclear programme was exclusively for peaceful purposes, said the statement, maintaining that Iran had the right to pursue its nuclear programme for peaceful civilian use.
''We have noted the passage of the UN Security Council Resolution and are studying its implications. We continue to feel that all possible efforts should be made to address the Iranian nuclear issue by peaceful means through dialogue and negotiation and that the IAEA should play a central role in resolving outstanding issues,'' External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said as quoted by UNI.
The issue threatens to snowball as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while rejecting the sanctions, said on Sunday that world powers would soon regret imposing them (sanctions.)
Terming the UN sanctions resolution as ''a piece of torn paper,'' he asserted it would not scare the Iranians into stopping nuclear work.
The adoption of the sanctions resolution came after successive reports by the IAEA indicating its inability to certify that Iran's motives were entirely peaceful.
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