From the very beginning, the West has been against scientific progress and economic growth in our country. They do not want to see our young generation gain access to nuclear fuel technology.
We believe that it is the right of all member nations to enjoy nuclear fuel and peaceful nuclear technology. We will not accept a scientific apartheid.
This is a step forward, but this means that others are to produce the fuel and sell it to us to use and for us to be always dependent on others ? this is outside the NPT and this is not acceptable to my nation,
We have obtained the technology for producing nuclear fuel ... no one can take it away from our nation.
the peaceful use of nuclear energy without a fuel cycle is an empty proposition.
At this historic moment, with the blessings of God Almighty and the efforts made by our scientists, I declare here that the laboratory-scale nuclear fuel cycle has been completed and young scientists produced enriched uranium needed to the degree for nuclear power plants Sunday.