Iranian Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel has reiterated that Iran's foreign policy would not be changed when the country's president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes office in early August, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

"Iran's foreign policy, based on detente and maintaining regional peace and stability, would not change in future," Adel was quoted as saying in a meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht on Friday in Brussels.

Adel specifically pointed out that Tehran insistently called for access to a peaceful nuclear technology, saying the demand was legally based on the agreement reached between Iran and the European Union (EU) in November 2004 in Paris.

Under the Paris Agreement, Iran suspended its highly sensitive uranium enrichment activities in exchange for the economic and technological incentives proposed by the EU. Since then, the two sides have not made any progress in the bilateral nuclear negotiations.

The speaker also said that Tehran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency was "positive", expressing hope that the EU trio of Britain, Germany and France would put forward their comprehensive proposal on Iran's nuclear issue as soon as possible.

Adel arrived in Brussels on Thursday for a three-day visit.

Hardliner former Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the 9th Iranian presidential election with a surprising landslide victory over his rival veteran political figure Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

With the president-elect's assumption of presidency on Aug. 4, concerns about his ultra-conservative image that might change Iran's foreign policy including the principle of cooperativeness on its nuclear issue have been raised.

Ahmadinejad has vowed that Iran is determined to carry out nuclear research for civilian purposes and will continue its talks with the EU on the nuclear issue to show moderation in its foreign policy.

Source: Xinhua