Araqchi: Iran sanctions must be terminated immediately
Press TV has conducted an interview with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi, about the new round of the nuclear talks between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: What will you be discussing in these round of talks in Vienna and who will be participating?
Araqchi: We will actually start drafting. As you know, we have come to solutions in Switzerland last time in Lausanne. Now what we have to do is to sit and write down these solutions to start drafting of the final Comprehensive Plan of Action.
We will start this with Mrs. Helga Schmid as the representative of the EU, who also represents the other members as well. Then on Friday, other members would join us and we would have a plenary with all members of the P5+1.
Press TV: You have said that sanctions is going to be a priority in these talks. Can you tell us whether the sides agreed in Lausanne or came to a mutual understanding in Lausanne that all of the sanctions – the US, the EU and the UN sanctions - are going to be removed immediately after implementation or based on a phased process or is this something that you are still discussing?
Araqchi: No. We believe that the solutions we came to in Lausanne and before that was crystal clear that all economic and financial sanctions should be terminated in the implementation day of JCPOA.
That understanding has already concluded. Now we have to draft how exactly that would happen. We do not believe in a phased process on economic and financial sanctions. All of them should be removed or terminated immediately when the JCPOA is started to be implemented.
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