No uranium plan through Iran: Bolivia

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"The uranium issue is not on the program, neither in any agreements. We have not decided on everything about uranium and still we do not have circumstances to do it. We do not have any plan for this issue," Xinhua quotation Bolivian Economy Minister Luis Arce as saying on Sunday. Arce dismissed media reports that Bolivia had launched joint projects with Iran to utilize uranium, saying during the recent visit by Bolivian President Evo Morales to Iran, the two countries detained no talks on uranium because Bolivia has no studies or research in hand concerning what its reserves of that substance might be. "We still have not talked about uranium. I think that we are still not in outline to do so.

We have to make studies, analyses and investigation to be able to tell about uranium," the minister said. The Bolivian minister expressed his country's regret for efforts by certain politicians from the resistance and some media reports to explain relations between Iran and Bolivia as a menace to world peace. The remarks came after President Morales set on Saturday that Bolivia plans to build a nuclear plant with Iran's help, stressing the ability would be for peaceful purposes. "There is nothing to lie about: One of the equipment we are working on with Iran is of course to have a nuclear plant, to make energy," Morales said.

The Bolivian president inwards in the Iranian capital, Tehran, for a three-day official visit last Sunday to strengthen bilateral ties and look for more Iranian investment in the South American country. During his meetings with Iranian officials, Morales invite Iran to establish a stronger attendance in Bolivia. The two countries also sign five memoranda of understate following the talks. Iran, as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, seek to utilize the peaceful application of nuclear energy for electricity generation and medical research. 

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