Negotiator: Iran, Sextet Discuss Preliminary Steps of JCPOA Implementation
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister said that foreign ministers of Iran and Group 5+1 in their meeting in New York reviewed preliminary steps to implement the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the document finalized in Vienna this Summer.
Seyed Abbas Araqchi, who is also one of senior Iranian nuclear negotiators, said on Tuesday that the brief review was done “both on sanctions and nuclear” fields.
The two sides underlined the necessity for removing any possible obstacles
“'The Seven foreign ministers and Ms. Mogherini in that session expressed satisfaction over the proper developments regarding the JCPOA on both sides of the deal during the past two months and expressed the hope that after completion of the Iranian Parliament's survey of the text, the process of implementation would be accelerated,” Araqchi noted.
Araqchi meanwhile noted that the process of implementing the Iran-IAEA Road-map and IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano's positive evaluation of that process, too, was discussed in the New York session, and the need to continue that process until the resolution of all ambiguities about past and present issues was emphasized.
The Monday meeting was the first official gathering of the ministers after finalization of a landmark nuclear deal in Vienna back in July.
The session was part of efforts to pursue implementation of the July 14 nuclear agreement, reached after some two years of diplomatic talks.
The European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Mogherini, had already expressed satisfaction with the international support for the JCPOA.
During the nuclear talks that concluded with the 159-page accord, the EU liaised with Iran on behalf of the six powers.