After a blockage of several months, the diplomats of all the parties (Iran, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany) returned to the negotiation table.
Le Monde with AFP
Iran said on Monday, August 8, that he examined the “final text” submitted by the European Union (EU) to the representatives of the capitals concerned during the Vienna negotiations, intended to save the moribund agreement of 2015 on the Iranian nuclear program.
“As soon as we received these ideas, we expressed our initial response and our reflections (…)” To the EU Enrique Mora coordinator, responsible for supervising Vienna’s dialogue, said a business manager Iranian foreign quoted by the official Irna agency. “But naturally the clauses require a global examination and we will transmit our views and our remarks to the coordinator and to the other parties,” he added.
This same official did not specify what this “initial response” or what “remarks” of his country were consistent with regarding the “final text”, while another European official in Vienna said that ” This text will not be renegotiated “. “We have worked four days and today the text is on the table of high representatives,” said the official on condition of anonymity. “Negotiation is over, this is the final text,” he added.
recovery of talks
After a blockage of several months, the diplomats of all the parties (Iran, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany) returned to Vienna last week in order to save the 2015 agreement. The Pact, known as the JCPOA, aims to guarantee the civil character of the nuclear program of Iran accused of seeking to acquire the atomic weapon despite its denials.
But following the unilateral removal in 2018 of the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump and the restoration of American sanctions, Tehran gradually freed himself from his obligations. The objective of the talks, in which the United States participates indirectly, is to put the process on the rails. “Now the ball is in the capitals camp and we will see what will happen,” added the European official who said “hoping out strongly” that the text is accepted and that an agreement intervenes “in a few weeks”.
remains a major obstacle: Iran is calling for the International Atomic Energy Energy Agency (AIEA) the closure of the issue of unconvolved sites, where traces of enriched uranium had been found. “It has nothing to do with the JCPOA. At the same time, Iran says it is fundamental. I hope Iran and AIEA have an agreement because it will facilitate a lot of things,” said declared the manager.
“The agency should completely settle the question (…) by the technical route, and move away from unrelevant and non -constructive political issues,” Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday, Hossein Amir Abdollahian.