Europe Urged to Take Independent Approach in Regional Events
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called on Europe to adopt an independent approach in regional developments.
Speaking Tuesday in meeting with Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn, Larijani urged that Europe should assume an independent and constructive approach and play a greater role in major regional developments.
He also referred to the good relations between Iran and Luxemburg in different areas and said Luxemburg has played a positive part in the European Union.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Larijani touched on the nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers and said the Iranian parliament supports nuclear talks that are conducted on a logical basis and aimed at producing positive and contrastive results.
He added that the backbone of Iran’s nuclear talks is the Fatwa (religious edict) issued by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution that bans all weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) are slated to convene their next meeting from June 16 to 20 in the Austrian capital of Vienna in order to draft a comprehensive deal to resolve the decade-long standoff over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.
They concluded the latest round of the nuclear negotiations in Vienna on May 16.
Luxembourg’s foreign minister in his meeting with Larijani described Iran as a great and important country with a rich culture and civilization and said the EU should do its best to develop relations with Iran in various fields.
Asselborn hoped that with the final resolution of the nuclear dispute and the removal of sanctions against Iran, new horizons would open in trade and economic ties between Iran and the EU.
