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| Diplomats from the European Union (EU), China, Russia and Iran hold a joint committee meeting on Iran’s nuclear agreement at the Grand Hotel in Vienna on the 6th (local time). © AFP=News1 |
The parties to the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA), including Iran, Russia, and the United States, responded positively to the first day of the talks on the 6th (local time) to restore the nuclear agreement.
According to AFP on the day, delegations from China, Britain, France, Germany, and Russia held their first meeting at a hotel in Vienna, Austria.
The US delegation did not directly participate in the talks, but it is indirectly involved in meetings with the European Union (EU) delegation at another hotel in Vienna.
After the first meeting, Russia has given a positive evaluation of the opening of the talks.
Ambassador Mikhail Yulianov of the Russian delegation at the meeting said on Twitter that the meeting was “successful” and “it will take time to restore the nuclear agreement.”
“After today’s JCPOA Joint Committee meeting, the most important thing is that practical work has begun to achieve the goal (called nuclear agreement).”
The United States and Iran also responded optimistically.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said, “It’s a constructive and welcoming move,” he said. “It was a potentially useful step in figuring out what Iran was ready to do to comply with the restrictions under the agreement and what we should do accordingly. “He said.
Iranian delegation leader Abbas Arakchi, who participated in the talks, said in an interview with Iran’s state-run IRINN, “Overall, we can say that the talks were constructive.”
“We need to make the most of this diplomatic space to put the JCPOA on track,” Enrique Mora, a senior EU diplomat chairing the conference, tweeted. “Our obvious goal is to get all parties back to full and effective implementation of the agreement.” Said.
The talks are scheduled to continue at the hotel in Vienna on the 7th.
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| Iranian delegation leader Abbas Arakchi is entering the Vienna Grand Hotel in Austria to participate in a joint committee meeting held on the 6th (local time) on Iran’s nuclear agreement. © AFP=News1 |
Iran’s nuclear agreement was signed in July 2015 by five permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, China, Russia, UK, France) and Germany. The main goal is to lift the sanctions against it.
In May 2018, when the then-U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally abolished the nuclear agreement and resumed sanctions against Iran, Iran also continued to abandon the nuclear agreement.
The Biden administration, which was launched in January, has indicated that it is willing to re-engage in the nuclear agreement.
Prior to the talks, Iranian envoy Robert Marley of the US delegation said the US was open to lifting sanctions against Iran and returning to negotiations, and Iranian government spokesman Ali Ravieri also “a start to correct the bad process that drove diplomacy into a dead end.” He expressed his welcoming position, saying.
A spokesman for Ravieri added that as soon as the Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran were lifted, it was ready to overturn measures such as work on highly enriched uranium.
However, the nuclear agreement process is unlikely to be smooth.
EU foreign and security policy spokesman Navila Masrali said it was too early to predict the outcome of the talks, and said the negotiation process would be complicated.
He stressed, “Joint efforts are needed to see what sanctions can be lifted and how to solve the nuclear problem.”
Kelsey Devonport Disarmament Association Nonproliferation Policy Director argued the day before that “both sides (Iran and the United States) must take a drastic first step to inspire momentum.”
He said that if the United States lifted the freeze on Iranian funds in foreign banks and made humanitarian trade possible, Iran could halt uranium enrichment activities above the level agreed in the agreement.