Tehran, YJC. Japanese official says his country is ready to help Iran build new nuclear power plants.
Foreign Ministry's Deputy
Director General for Press and Public Diplomacy of Japan Koichi Mizushima
who accompanied his country’s Foreign Minister to Iran in his recent trip, speaking
to reporters on sunday said that Japan is willing to help Iran build new
nuclear power plants.
"As
soon as Iran’s nuclear case is solved and concerns are met and in case Iranian officials
would like us to, we are ready to cooperate with Iran in building nuclear power
plants,” said Mizushima.
The
Japanese official also stated that the Japanese foreign minister held "very
good and constructive” talks with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and Majlis
Speaker Ali Larijani on Saturday, Press TV reports.
He
maintained that Iran and Japan enjoy powerful, traditional relations and that
Tokyo thinks highly of Iran as a key country in its own neighborhood.
Mizushima
also pointed to Iran-Japan talks on ways to cope with the receding Urmia Lake
and said "Japan is ready to cooperate in meeting this environmental problem. It
is arranged for the first step for a group of Japanese experts to visit Iran in
order to study the situation.”
He
added, though, that the program is in preliminary stages and that Japan has for
yet no specific plan or schedule for starting the operations.
He
also expressed satisfaction with meetings between the Japanese Foreign Minister
and Iranian officials as highly constructive and said "This afternoon the Foreign
Minister will discuss mutual regional and international issues, including Iran’s
nuclear case, with his Iranian counterpart.”