China News Service, Beijing, December 9th. Comprehensive news: According to foreign media reports, relevant sources confirmed that the talks between relevant parties of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Iranian Nuclear Issue were suspended again on December 3 and will resume on the 9th local time.
According to Al Jazeera, after Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief Negotiator on the Iranian Nuclear Issue Bagheri and European Union Chief Negotiator Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary-General of the Foreign Operations Agency, and many other relevant persons confirmed that the Iranian nuclear talks will resume, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on the 8th that the US delegation led by Robert Marley, the US government’s special envoy for Iran, plans to participate in negotiations this weekend.
After six rounds of talks between the relevant parties on the Iranian nuclear agreement that began in April this year were held in Vienna, the capital of Austria, the suspension was announced due to serious differences between the United States and Iran and the change of leadership of the Iranian government.
On November 29, the seventh round of talks between the parties involved in the Iranian nuclear agreement restarted in Vienna. Iran and the six countries on the Iranian nuclear issue (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) all sent delegations to the meeting.
However, it was difficult for the United States and Iran to reach agreement on the conditions for lifting the sanctions and whether negotiations should be conducted on the basis of the results of the previous six rounds of negotiations, and the negotiations were once deadlocked.
On December 3, the negotiations were suspended again.
According to Al Jazeera, the two documents submitted by Iran to the Joint Committee on the Comprehensive Agreement on the Iranian Nuclear Issue on December 2 detailed Iran’s proposal on how to lift sanctions and reduce the country’s nuclear development, as well as asking the United States to guarantee that it will not withdraw again. The Iran nuclear agreement has begun to review the preconditions for lifting the sanctions against Iran.
In the follow-up documents submitted by Iran, the main content is basically the same.
Iran’s Mehr News Agency quoted Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 5 as saying that the United States’ unwillingness to give up sanctions is the main challenge facing the negotiations.
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also wrote on social media that if the United States is willing to give up "maximum pressure", European countries can also make up their minds, and the agreement will be reached soon, but "they are unwilling to make concessions or discuss the previous draft. Existing problems".
Bagheri said that it was the United States who withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement before. This time the United States should also take the first step, such as immediately lifting all sanctions against Iran.
Reuters quoted U.S. Secretary of State Brinken’s statement on December 3 that the U.S. believes that Iran has not seriously considered taking necessary measures to comply with the agreement, so the U.S. will not allow Iran to continue to "delay the process and advance its nuclear program."
Brinken also said that if diplomatic channels fail, the US will seek other ways to solve the problem.
According to foreign media reports, European representatives also expressed disappointment with Iran's negotiating position.
Al Jazeera quoted a statement from a senior European diplomat and reported that Europe believes that some of the new requirements made by Iran are inconsistent with the Iran nuclear agreement reached in 2015, but it is not clear how to "bridging these differences within the time limit."
However, not all participating parties expressed a pessimistic attitude towards the prospects of the negotiations.
Wang Qun, Chinese negotiator and Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations in Vienna, stated on December 3 that since the seventh round of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear agreement, all parties have been serious and serious. Although no breakthrough has been achieved, the progress made should not be underestimated. .
Mikhail Ulyanov, the Permanent Representative of Russia to the International Organization in Vienna, also believes that “it seems premature to be disappointed” because changes are still possible.
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