Chair,

On behalf of France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we welcome the Board’s adoption of this important resolution on Iran’s implementation of safeguards.  The Board’s collective action upholds the integrity of the IAEA safeguards system and the broader nuclear nonproliferation regime:  states will be held to account if they do not live up to their obligations.

The action creates an opportunity Iran should seize.  Iran still has a chance to finally fulfill its obligations, in full candor, and answer the IAEA’s crucial, longstanding questions on undeclared nuclear material and activities.

We sincerely hope that when the Board reports this matter to the United Nations Security Council, as required by the Statute, it can describe how Iran has changed its course and finally chosen the path of compliance.  We look forward to further reporting from the Director General in the months ahead, and we commend him and his team for their continued, professional, and impartial efforts to verify Iran’s implementation of its safeguards agreement.

I thank you, Chair.