ISTANBUL (A.A) - 08.06.2010 - The Iranian president said on Tuesday that nuclear swap agreement was an opportunity that would not be repeated.
Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad said the meeting among Iran, Turkey and Brazil in Tehran regarding nuclear swap agreement was an opportunity for the United States and its allies.
"They should make best use of it (the agreement), opportunities will not be repeated," Ahmadi-Nejad told a press conference in Istanbul on the sidelines of an Asian summit.
Ahmadi-Nejad is participating in the Third Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Istanbul.
The Iranian president said Iran was always ready for dialogue within the framework of respect and justice.
Under an agreement signed among Turkey, Iran and Brazil in Tehran on May 17, Turkey will be the venue of uranium swap between Iran and and the West.
With the agreement signed by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Motaki and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Iran committed to give the 1200kg of 3.5% enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for 20% enriched uranium it will receive from Western countries to be used as fuel in the nuclear research reactor in Tehran.
Tehran will receive the enriched uranium from the Vienna Group, comprising of the U.S., France, Russia and International Atomic Energy Agency, in Turkey.
Also, Ahmadi-Nejad said Iran had been standing by the Palestinian people for 30 years and would continue to do so.
Ahmadi-Nejad referred to last week's Israeli attack on Gaza-bound aid flotilla and said the attack revealed that nations had been awake and were standing against violence and the cruel.
The Iranian president said the aid flotilla was an action in the name of freedom of humanity, not only for the people of Gaza.
Nine people, including eight Turkish and one U.S. citizen of Turkish descent, died when Israeli forces raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31. Around 30 people were wounded in the attack.