EU Foreign Policy Chief Urges Quick Progress in Vienna Talks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The European Union foreign policy chief emphasized the need for the parties engaged in the JCPOA talks in Vienna to “advance much quicker” in order to revive the Iran nuclear deal.
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles held a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Wednesday.
In a post on his Twitter account after the phone call, Borrell said, “Spoke today with Iranian Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian at his request ahead of the next round of JCPOA negotiations in Vienna tomorrow.”
“I conveyed a sense of urgency: we need to advance much quicker in the negotiations to restore the deal,” the EU diplomat added.
Delegations from Iran and the P4+1 (Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany) are going to proceed with the negotiations on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal in Vienna today.
The JCPOA was signed in 2015 between Iran and the Group 5+1 and endorsed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
However, then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally pulled Washington out of the nuclear deal in May 2018 and reinstated the anti-Iranian sanctions that had been lifted by the deal.
As the remaining European parties have failed to fulfill their commitments to the accord and compensate for Washington’s absence, Iran moved in May 2019 to scale back its JCPOA commitments.
Iran and the remaining parties to the JCPOA have held seven rounds of talks in Vienna, which began after the US administration of Joe Biden voiced a willingness to rejoin the nuclear agreement, to examine the prospect of the bans’ fresh removal.
