Brussels, Belgium:
World powers and Iran will meet by videoconference to talk about the achievable return of the United States to the Iran nuclear deal, the EU announced Thursday, in a improvement welcomed by Washington.
Representatives of China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and Iran — the nations nevertheless party to the agreement soon after the US left — will attend Friday’s meeting.
“Participants will discuss the prospect of a possible return of the United States to the JCPOA, and how to ensure the full and effective implementation of the agreement by all sides,” the statement stated, referring to the deal by its initials.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that “we obviously welcome this as a positive step”.
“We are ready to pursue a return to compliance with our JCPOA commitments consistent with Iran also doing the same,” Price stated.
The US is speaking to partners “about the best way to achieve this, including through a series of initial mutual steps,” he added.
The meeting will bring with each other the body that oversees the implementation of the JCPOA, which has been beneath threat due to the fact then-US president Donald Trump pulled out in 2018 and Iran started to resume nuclear activities it had scaled back.
The on-line meeting will be chaired by senior European Union diplomat Enrique Mora on behalf of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
Trump denounced the 2015 accord, which saw Iran granted relief from international sanctions in exchange for accepting limits on its nuclear programme, which Western powers feared would lead to it acquiring an atomic weapon.
But new US President Joe Biden has promised to rejoin the agreement on situation Tehran initial returns to respecting the commitments abandoned in retaliation for Trump’s choice.
Earlier this month, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated Iran may possibly return to complete compliance if Tehran deems Washington has honoured its commitments.
The agreement was signed by Iran in Vienna in 2015 with the main powers United States, China, Russia, Germany, France, United Kingdom, beneath an EU chair.
It was created to avert the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear arsenal by imposing strict limits on its nuclear programme and force it to stay exclusively civilian and peaceful.
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