Mottaki arrived here Sunday afternoon on a short visit to discuss issues of mutual interest with senior Japanese officials including his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada.

Komura stressed the absolute rights of all members of the International Atomic Energy Agency and signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, including Iran, to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

He said no country could ever deny the eligible rights of other states.

Also present in the meeting was Japan’s former prime minister Yasuo fukuda who currently serves as the top advisor of Iran-Japan Friendship Group.

Supporting Tehran-Tokyo all-out cooperation particularly in energy field, Yasuo also welcomed the recent nuclear agreement signed about exchange of Iran's low-enriched uranium.

Known as the Tehran Declaration, the agreement was signed on May 17 by senior officials of Iran, Brazil and Turkey on the sidelines of the G15 summit meeting in Tehran.

Based on the agreement, Tehran accepted to send 1,200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kilograms of highly-enriched uranium which will be used as nuclear fuel for the country’s medical research reactor.