Iran officials in Vienna for JCPOA commission
Two senior Iranian officials have traveled to the Austrian capital, Vienna, for talks on the implementation of an agreement previously reached between Iran and the P5+1 on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Abbas Araqchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, who is charged with pursuing the implementation of the agreement, and Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi, the deputy foreign minister for European and American affairs, arrived in Vienna early on Monday.
On July 14, Iran and the P5+1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany – finalized the text of a nuclear agreement dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Austrian capital.
Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic related to its nuclear program.
In a related development, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Sunday announced in a joint statement that the EU had “adopted the legislative framework for the lifting of all nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions against Iran.” Sunday marked the “adoption day” of the JCPOA.
Araqchi and Takht-e-Ravanchi are to attend the first meeting of a joint Iran-P5+1 commission on the implementation of the JCPOA.
“On this day (Monday), the Iran-P5+1 Joint Commission [on JCPOA] will officially begin its work,” said Araqchi, who was a senior nuclear negotiator in the talks that led to the conclusion of the JCPOA.
“The commission will be at the level of deputy ministers,” he said.
On the agenda of Monday’s meeting will be the latest developments pertaining to the JCPOA as well as the manner of fulfilling commitments under the agreement in the time space between the “adoption day” and the “implementation day” of the JCPOA, said Araqchi.
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