(Updated throughout with details, American representative; photo production available)
BERLIN / WASHINGTON, Dec.29 (Reuters) – Heads of Russian and US delegations to Iran nuclear talks met in Vienna on Wednesday, where an eighth round of talks to revive the deal kicked off on Monday. 2015, a goal for which Washington and Moscow say they are coordinating.
Russia’s chief negotiator Mikhail Ulyanov has announced that he has met with the US special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley.
“Close consultations and coordination between the Russian and US delegations during the Vienna talks is an important prerequisite for moving forward towards the reestablishment of the JCPOA,” he wrote on Twitter with reference to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( PAGC, JCPOA in English) signed in 2015 by Iran, the United States, Russia, China and the “E3” – Germany, France, United Kingdom.
The agreement, framing Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions against it, was denounced by former US President Donald Trump in 2018. Since then, Tehran has gradually freed itself from the terms of the agreement. agreement, in particular concerning uranium enrichment limits.
A new round of indirect negotiations aimed at bringing Iran and the United States back into the agreement opened in Vienna on Monday. Tehran is now focusing on only one part of the agreement, the lifting of economic sanctions, even as voices denounce the advances in its nuclear program that the PAGC was intended to prevent. nL8N2TC2CA
Washington on Tuesday expressed caution over optimistic comments from Iran and Russia on the progress of talks, saying it was still too early to say whether Tehran had resumed negotiations with a constructive spirit. nL8N2TD1ZW
According to a senior US representative, US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss Iranian nuclear power during their telephone interview scheduled for Thursday. nL8N2TE30F
“The United States, our European partners and the Russians are in fairly close coordination in Vienna, working together in a rather constructive manner,” he said Wednesday on condition of anonymity.
(Report Miranda Murray in Berlin and Trevor Hunnicutt in Washington; French version Matthieu Protard and Jean Terzian)
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