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The European Union foreign policy chief
says Iran is complying with the nuclear deal reached between Iran and G5+1 last
year, IRNA reported.
The
common assessment is that Iran is living up to its commitments under the deal,
known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Federica Mogherini
told a press briefing following a meeting between the foreign ministers of Iran
and the P5+1 group of countries – Britain, China, France, Russia, the United
States and Germany – at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday.
“We
have three reports from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
confirming that Iran has taken all the steps it had to on nuclear related
issues. As you know sanctions, nuclear related sanctions, were all lifted,” she
said.
“We
all reaffirmed very strongly the political importance, the historic political
importance, of this agreement that has shown to the world and to ourselves that
even the most difficult issues can be solved through dialogue and diplomacy and
with a win-win approach, overcoming the zero sum game approach that sometimes
block us in some of our talks and negotiations,” the EU foreign policy chief
said.
Mogherini
said the issue of Iran’s ballistic missiles was not discussed during Thursday’s
meeting, because Tehran's missile tests are not a breach of the JCPOA.
The
top European diplomat highlighted that parties at the meeting also addressed
the removal of hurdles which foreign banks and financial institutions face for
business with Iran.