Luxembourg Eyes Better Ties with Iran: Parliament Speaker
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Mars Di Bartolomeo, the President of Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies (the European country’s national legislature), highlighted the significance of Luxembourg City’s ties with Tehran, and expressed the willingness to expand and deepen bilateral relations.
Di Bartolomeo, who is in the Iranian southern city of Shiraz in Fars Province, expressed the hope that the ties between the two countries would swiftly develop from now on.
Speaking in a Thursday meeting with the Governor-General of the province, Di Bartolomeo referred to the upcoming implementation of the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers and the subsequent termination of anti-Iran sanctions.
“After the deal, our hopes have sharply risen for the enhancement of relations between the two countries,” he noted, adding that a bright future is now expected for bilateral ties.
“The deal also helps the international community to move alongside Iran in the path of fighting terrorism and ending the wars and violence,” Di Bartolomeo added, IRNA reported.
He also pointed to his Iran visit, and said he has found out that Luxembourg can cooperate with Iran in economic, academic, and medical fields as well as the insurance system, in which the two share similarities.
His visit to Iran came a couple of months after Luxembourgian Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn made a trip to Iran in late November 2015, during which he met senior Iranian officials including his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani.
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south.
The European state was one of the countries that played host to the recent nuclear talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France, and Germany), which ended in a comprehensive nuclear deal finalized back in July 2015.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (also known as E3+3 and P5+1) on July 14 reached a conclusion on a 159-page nuclear agreement that would terminate all sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear energy program after coming into force.
Afterwards, the 15-memebr United Nations Security Council passed a resolution that endorsed the JCPOA.
According to the UNSC Resolution 2231, all previous UNSC sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program will be terminated when the JCPOA takes effect.
