TEHRAN - An Iranian official urged on Saturday International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to refrain from leaking confidential information on a recent agreement between Iran and UN nuclear watchdog, days ahead of IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s scheduled visit to Washington. Disclosure of the confidential agreement to the U.S. Senate will have repercussions, Reza Najafi, Iranian ambassador to IAEA, was quoted as saying by Press TV on Saturday. “Definitely, the agreements between a country and the UN agency,  which are classified,

can by no means be availed to any other country,” Najafi said. The IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was invited by the members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to visit Washington next week, talking about the agency’s role in verifying and monitoring nuclear-related measures in Iran. Iran and the IAEA recently signed a roadmap in the Austrian capital of Vienna for the clarification of past and present issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program by mid-December. The confidential texts between Iran and the IAEA have not even been provided to the U.S. government and cannot be given to the Senate either, Najafi was quoted as saying.

Amano has said that the roadmap “sets out a clear sequence of activities over the coming months, including the provision by Iran of explanations regarding outstanding issues.”

The roadmap enables the IAEA to “issue a report setting out the agency’s final assessment of possible military dimensions to Iran’ s nuclear program, for the action of the IAEA Board of Governors, by 15 December 2015,” he added.(Xinhua)