United Nations: Great Britain, France and Germany press Iran to conclude an agreement that would retain new United Nations sanctions.
The three European powers said that the offer gives Tehran more time for interviews on its nuclear program, but only if it allows return inspectors and facilitate Western fears concerning uranium stocks.
The United Nations envoys for the three countries – known as E3 – published a joint declaration before a closed -door security council meeting, one day after launching a 30 -day process to reimpise UN sanctions against Iran on its disputed nuclear program.
The E3 proposed to delay the reintegration of sanctions – known as Snapback – up to six months if Iran has restored access to UN nuclear inspectors, responded to concerns about its enriched uranium stock and is committed to talks with the United States.
“Our requests were fair and realistic,” said Barbara Woodward, UN ambassador to Great Britain, who read the press release. “However, to date, Iran has shown no indication that it is serious to meet them.”
“We urge Iran to reconsider this position, to achieve an agreement based on our offer and to help create space for a diplomatic solution to this long-term issue,” she said, with her German and French counterparts standing next to her.
In response, the United Nations Iranian ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said that E3’s offer was “full of unrealistic preconditions”.
“They demand conditions that should be the result of negotiations, not the starting point, and they know that these requests cannot be satisfied,” he told journalists.
Iravani said that the E3 should rather support “a short unconditional technical extension of resolution 2231”, which devotes a 2015 nuclear agreement which raised the UN and West sanctions against Iran in exchange for borders of its nuclear program.
Sino-Russian project
Russia and China have proposed a draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council which would extend the 2015 agreement for six months and urged all parties to immediately resume negotiations. But they have not yet asked for a vote.
The couple, strategic allies of Iran, eliminated the controversial language of the project – which they initially proposed on Sunday – who would have prevented the E3 from repimacing the UN sanctions to Iran.
Iravani has described the resolution of the Russian and Chinese project as a practical step to give more time to diplomacy. A resolution requires at least nine votes in favor and no veto from the United States, France, Great Britain, China or Russia.
UN nuclear inspectors returned to Iran for the first time since he suspended cooperation with them after attacks in June on his nuclear sites by Israel and the United States. But Iran has not yet concluded an agreement on how it would resume full work with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
