Malaysia said Sunday it has recalled its envoy to the UN in Vienna following an International Atomic Energy Agency vote to censure Iran over its nuclear programme.
Malaysia, along with Venezuela and Cuba, voted against the November 27 IAEA resolution which demanded that Iran halt construction of a uranium enrichment site kept secret until recently.
"The voting was not in accordance with the procedures of the government," the foreign ministry said in a statement, without elaborating.
"Therefore the minister of foreign affairs has instructed the permanent representative of Malaysia to the United Nations in Vienna to return to Malaysia for consultations," it said.
Of the 35-member IAEA board of governors, 25 countries voted in favour of the resolution, which had been sponsored by Britain, France, the United States, Russia, China and Germany.
The Islamic republic has for months been engaged in negotiations with the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany over its suspect nuclear activities.
The powers have long suspected that Iran, despite its fierce denials, is trying to build a nuclear bomb, objecting to Tehran's uranium enrichment work which can be used to power nuclear reactors, but in a highly purified form can make the fissile core of an atom bomb.
Iran's foreign ministry has dismissed the resolution as "theatrical and useless".
Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, has been forced to deny any role in the illegal export of nuclear weapons to Iran, but last month confirmed the involvement of a national in the export of sensitive components.

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