Mousavian calls on EU to deliver on Paris Agreement
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
London, Feb 3, IRNA -- Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council`s foreign policy committee, Hossein Mousavian, said Thursday that it was time for the European Union to deliver on its Paris Agreement with Iran. "We have not yet seen considerable progress in our co-operation and no incentives in political, security, technological, economic and nuclear fields," Mousavian said. In an interview with the Financial Times, he expressed concern that European countries had not delivered on the commitments made in last November`s agreement, which is aimed at reaching long-term arrangements on Iran`s nuclear programme. "We are determined to carry out the Paris agreement and are thoroughly committed to it," Iran`s top nuclear negotiator said, adding that he expected the talks with the European Union countries to end by June. But he criticized the pace of the negotiations, led by Britain, France and Germany, saying, "The talks so far do not indicate serious determination of Europeans to achieve any results quickly." "Now it is time to deliver something to Iranian public opinion and nation," Mousavian said in reference to the commitments made by the EU in return for Iran suspending the enrichment of uranium. With regard to suspicions that the EU was coordinating policy with the US and artificially dragging out the negotiations, he warned that if this was the case "then we would have a crisis of trust with Europe", he said. The member of the Supreme National Security Committee suggested that Iran would not object to the US joining the talks with the three EU countries, but said Washington should "finally put aside their hostilities and decrease tensions." But he conceded that that the prospects of a thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran were "not good." NJ/HC/1430/1420
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