VIENNA — A new understanding is emerging at talks aimed at
salvaging Iran’s nuclear deal with global powers, Tehran’s chief negotiator
said on Saturday according to Iranian state media, as China’s delegate also
reported progress.
اضافة اعلان
Abbas Araqchi said after a meeting of remaining parties to
the 2015 deal that the Iranian delegation had submitted proposed texts on
nuclear issues and the lifting of sanctions, and that work on a common text,
“at least in areas where there are common views,” could begin.
Iran has breached many of the deal’s restrictions on its
nuclear activities in response to the US withdrawal and reimposition of
sanctions against Tehran under President Donald Trump.
Araqchi was quoted as saying that, while serious
disagreements remained, “a new understanding appears to be emerging.”
The second round of talks began on Thursday in a luxury
Vienna hotel. The United States, making a new diplomatic push in the Middle
East under Joe Biden’s administration, is not present as Iran has declined
face-to-face negotiation.
However,
European Union officials chairing the talks are
carrying out shuttle diplomacy with a US delegation based at another hotel
across the road.
Negotiators are working on steps that both sides must take,
on sanctions and nuclear activities, to return to full compliance, but the
talks have been further complicated by an explosion at Iran’s main
uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz.
Iran has responded by saying it is enriching uranium to 60
percent fissile purity, a big step towards weapons-grade from the 20 percent it
had previously achieved.
China’s envoy to the talks earlier said all participants —
China, Russia, France, Britain, Germany, and Iran — had agreed to accelerate
work on issues including which sanctions the United States would lift.
“All parties have agreed to further pick up their pace in
subsequent days by engaging (in) more extensive, substantive work on
sanctions-lifting as well as other relevant issues,” Wang Qun told reporters.
Wang, the only envoy who regularly speaks to reporters outside
the talks, said remaining parties to the deal had resumed “productive and
constructive work” over the past two days.
“In the next few days we hope the Joint Commission will
immediately start negotiating the specific formula of sanction-lifting,” he added,
using the term for formal meetings of those parties.
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