Vienna, Oct 23: Iran today turned over to the UN nuclear agency documents on its past atomic energy activities, calling the dossier a full disclosure of a program the United States contends masks a covert weapons effort. "We have submitted a report fully disclosing all our past activities in the nuclear field," Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's representative to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters.

Neither Salehi nor IAEA Director-General Mohamed Elbaradei would say what the package of documents contained, but Elbaradei said he expected the information to answer all outstanding questions about Iran's nuclear activities. "The debate was for Iran to come with full disclosure," he said without elaborating.

Diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity told a news agency earlier this week that Iran would provide the origin of traces of weapons-grade uranium found at least two different sites inside the country.

Elbaradei has called those traces, found in environmental samples by agency experts, the most troubling aspect of Iran's nuclear activities. Bureau Report