Biden and rest of Western powers press Iran at UN to resume nuclear deal negotiations

The president of the United States, Joe Biden told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that Washington would return “fully” to the nuclear deal with Iran if Tehran did the same.

Biden noted that the United States was “working” with China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany to “diplomatically engage Iran and demand a return.” to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), which the United States abandoned in 2018.

“We are ready to fully comply again if Iran does the same”added.

According to the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, who is also in New York for the General Assembly, Negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal are expected to resume “in the coming weeks.”

Talks to resuscitate the 2015 pact by reinstating Washington, which began in April in A between Tehran and the five powers that are still part of the agreement (China, France, United Kingdom, Russia and Germany), they have stagnated since June.

A meeting in New York “is not on the agenda”, but “the nuclear agreement and the Vienna talks will be one of the main subjects of the bilateral meetings [de Irán] with the head of European diplomacy [Josep] Borrell and the foreign ministers “of the countries which are part of the agreement, declared Khatibzadeh, quoted by the official Iranian agency Irna.

The 2015 Vienna Accord on Iran’s nuclear program offered Tehran relief from Western and UN sanctions in exchange for a pledge never to equip itself with nuclear weapons and a drastic reduction in its nuclear program, under the strict control of the United Nations.

But after the Unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the agreement in 2018 under the administration of President Donald Trump, Iran abandoned most of its commitments established in the agreement.

Germany-Iran meeting in New York

Tuesday, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Heiko Maas, also urged Iran to return to the negotiating table held in Vienna to return to the nuclear pact.

Maas met his Iranian counterpart, Hosein Amirabdolahian, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and insisted that “time is running out”.

“We still believe that it is possible that the negotiations will lead to a positive result, but not in the coming months, but in the coming weeks “German Foreign Minister said after Tehran said it could take “two or three months” to appoint a new delegation.

The new Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi has repeatedly stressed that Iran wants to continue negotiatingThe Iranian delegation to participate in the post-election talks has not yet been determined.

Meanwhile, the new head of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohammed Eslami, said yesterday in Vienna, in a speech at the IAEA General Conference, that his country was seeking to negotiate “Results oriented, with the aim of lifting the unfair sanctions against Iran.”

(With AFP, EFE, EuropaPress information)

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