BERLIN — The board of the United Nations' atomic watchdog agency on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Iran to provide inspectors access to sites where the country is thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material, the Russian representative said. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, said on Twitter that his country and China had voted against the resolution, proposed at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting by Germany, France and Britain. “We believe that the resolution can be counterproductive,” he said, at the same time “stressing the need for Tehran and IAEA to settle this problem without delay.”Earlier this week, IAEA Director General Mariano Grossi reiterated concerns that for more than four months Iran had denied his inspectors access to two locations " to clarify our questions related to possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities.”

Source: International New York Times June 19, 2020 10:18 UTC