Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna amid new complications

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Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 21:59 - 27 April 2021
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 (YJC)_ Following the main JCPOA meeting representatives commented on the talks.

Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna amid new complicationsWorld powers resumed high-level talks in Vienna on Tuesday focused on bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran, in their first session since comments surfaced from the Iranian foreign minister alleging that Russia once tried to scupper the pact.

Ahead of the main talks, Russia's top representative Mikhail Ulyanov said he'd met on the side together with officials from Iran and China, but did not mention anything about Zarif's comments.

"We compared notes and exchanged views on the way ahead towards full restoration of the nuclear deal," he tweeted. "It was a very fruitful meeting."

Following the main meeting with his counterparts from China, Germany, France, and Britain — the other parties to the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA — Ulyanov tweeted that they were "guided by the unity of purpose."

"Which is full restoration of the nuclear deal in its original form," he wrote. "It was decided to expedite the process."

China's delegate Wang Qun told reporters on his way out of the talks that discussions would continue on Wednesday.

Asked in Berlin about Zarif's remarks, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that the talks in Vienna are "anything but easy" but have been constructive so far.

"My impression from the talks is that irrespective of (how) things developed in the past, everyone seems to be working to keep the JCPOA alive," he said.

The Vienna talks began in early April, and there have been several rounds of high-level discussions, while expert groups have been working on proposals on how to resolve the issues around American sanctions and Iranian compliance, as well as the "possible sequencing" of the U.S. return.

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