Vienna discussions, entered in their final phase, have been suspended Friday.
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Ban of nations because of the war in Ukraine, Russia has indeed taken hostage the rescue of the Iranian nuclear agreement. The negotiations were about to reach Vienna, but they were suspended Friday, March 11th. In question, the guarantees claimed by Moscow in order to obtain broad exemptions on the massive sanctions taken by the Westerners in response to the invasion decided by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. At the edge of the default due to these retaliation, Russia requires that they do not enter its economic cooperation with Iran.
The request is considered “unacceptable” by the European negotiators, who bear at the end of the arms relaunched in November 2021, in order to enable the United States to reintegrate the compromise called JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). “We have to take a break in the talks because of external factors,” Josep Borrell justified the head of the European Union (EU), which coordinates the process.
Moscow requests were judged “off topic” by the leader of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken. “The new sanctions related to Russia are absolutely unrelated” with the agreement and “should not have any impact” on these discussions, added the spokesman of the US State Department. “We have no intention of providing Russia anyone again or specific.”
“This is a hostage of the JCPOA to obtain a backward return on the sanctions taken against Russians”, denounces a negotiator, on behalf of the three European capitals – Paris, Berlin, London – signatories of the 2015 Agreement, before it be denounced by Donald Trump in 2018. For this diplomat, a blockage at this very advanced stage of negotiation “would be irresponsible by Russia”, since An agreement “is on the table and must be concluded urgently.” Moscow, like Beijing, is also a signatory to the 2015 accord.
“Footnotes”
The compromise being close, the European negotiators have also left Vienna since Friday, March 4th. If they still do not speak live, the representatives of the United States, Robert Malley, and Iran, Ali Bagheri Kani, remained in the Austrian capital: they have been trying since, through the representative of the European Union, to overcome ultimate divergence points, especially on how to treat the guardians of the Revolution – a sensitive subject. Testing in Afghanistan, and Europe, the Bidan administration places the revival of the JCPOA among its diplomatic priorities.
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