TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran�s Ambassador to Kazakhstan Mojtaba Damirchilou announced that Tehran and Astana are determined to broaden their mutual cooperation in the nuclear field, specially in exchanging uranium stockpiles.

"In line with its balanced foreign policy, Kazakhstan has always been looking for playing a positive and constructive role in important regional and international issues such as its aid to the holding of nuclear talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany) and its help to the implementation of the nuclear agreement through exchange of 60 tons of natural uranium," Damirchilou told FNA on Wednesday.

He reiterated that Kazakhstan is seriously determined to broaden its nuclear cooperation with Iran.

In a relevant development in September, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and Kazakh Energy Minister Vladimir Shkolnik underlined the need for both Tehran and Astana to pave the ground for the further promotion of nuclear energy ties, particularly over Kazakhstan's nuclear fuel bank.

In a meeting on the sidelines of the 59th Annual Regular Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in Vienna, the two sides underlined friendly and close relations between the two countries and called for the expansion of relations mainly in energy sector.

During the meeting, Salehi and Shkolnik discussed details of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) struck between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) in Vienna on July 14.

Speaking to reporters after his meeting with the Kazakh minister, Salehi said that it has been stipulated in the JCPOA that Iran can buy nuclear fuel from Kazakhstan nuclear fuel bank.

By Fars News Agency