TEHRAN - The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in a statement on Wednesday repeated its strong support for Iran's peaceful nuclear program, and described diplomacy and negotiation as the only way to find a comprehensive and durable solution to Tehran's nuclear issue.

NAM strongly believes that all the issues related to "(nuclear) safeguards and verifications including those which are related to Iran", should be solved within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and should be based on the technical and legal grounds, the statement said.

The statement also referred to the latest report by the IAEA Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Iran's nuclear activities, and said the agency has been able to continue verification of the non-diversion of the declared nuclear materials in Iran.

NAM further noticed that the agency has found no evidence which shows reprocessing activities in the installations that are under the IAEA supervision in Iran, the statement added.

The Non-Aligned Movement in its statement called on all the member states to contribute a positive role in the issue, and urged all related sides to shun undue pressure which endangers the constructive process between Iran and the IAEA.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is an international organization of 118 states considering themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.

The United States and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative document to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Iran is under three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's illegitimate calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical. Iran says it will only negotiate with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Tehran has also repeatedly stressed that it considers its nuclear case closed after it answered the UN agency's questions about the history of its nuclear program.

The IAEA chief in his latest report to the 35-nation Board of Governors confirmed "the non-diversion" of nuclear material in Iran, and added that the agency had found no "components of a nuclear weapon" or "related nuclear physics studies" in the country.

The IAEA report confirmed that Iran has managed to enrich uranium-235 to a level "less than 5 percent". Such a rate is consistent with the fuel needed in nuclear power plants. Nuclear arms production, meanwhile, requires an enrichment level of above 90 percent.

The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog continues snap inspections of Iranian nuclear sites and has reported that all "declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited activities".