Iran’s new foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, is due to travel to New York on Monday for his first official trip to the United States, where he will meet his German, Chinese, French, British and Russian counterparts, parties to the agreement. on Iranian nuclear power.
Traveling to New York on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly which will officially begin on Tuesday, Mr. Amir-Abdollahian, appointed in August, “will have separate and bilateral meetings” with the chiefs of diplomacy of China, France , Britain, Russia and Germany, Iranian Foreign Affairs spokesman Said Khatibzadeh said at a press conference in Tehran. A meeting with American officials is “not on the agenda,” he added.
Concluded in 2015, the Vienna agreement on Iranian nuclear power offered Tehran relief from Western and UN sanctions in exchange for its commitment never to acquire atomic weapons, and a drastic reduction in its nuclear program, placed under strict UN control. But after the Americans’ unilateral withdrawal from the deal in 2018 under President Donald Trump, Iran has gradually abandoned most of its commitments.
Discussions, stalled since June, began in April in Vienna between Iran and the five powers still parties to the agreement to resuscitate this pact by reintegrating Washington. “Regarding the holding of a meeting (of the States parties to the Vienna Agreement, editor’s note)”, Mr. Khatibzadeh however indicated that “no decision has (had) been taken yet”, and that the latter would depend on whether it is “useful for negotiations”.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded on September 12 – a few days after the UN nuclear gendarme denounced a lack of cooperation on this subject – an agreement with Iran on the monitoring of its program, giving hope for a resumption of the Vienna talks.
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Iran’s new foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, is due to travel to New York on Monday for his first official trip to the United States, where he will meet his German, Chinese, French, British and Russian counterparts, parties to the agreement. on Iranian nuclear power, traveling to New York on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly which will begin …
