"Will we be able to resume (negotiations. -

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) before the end of the year? ... We are ready to continue," the spokesman for the American Foreign Ministry replied to a TASS question.

He added that the participants in the "five plus one" format (Russia, Great Britain, China, France and the Federal Republic of Germany) on the Iranian nuclear deal share the same opinion.

Earlier it became known that the United States is ready to completely lift sanctions from Iran, which run counter to Washington's obligations under the JCPOA, if Iran also complies with its obligations.

The foreign ministers of the G7 countries called on Iran to conclude an agreement on the JCPOA.

Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said that the parties at the talks in the Austrian capital noted a number of important common features in their positions.