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"The meeting of the Joint Commission is over. It was rather short and constructive," tweeted Russia’s representative, Mikhail Ulyanov.
"The participants observed a number of important commonalities in their positions, including with regard to the need to finalize the restoration of JCPOA successfully and swiftly," Ulyanov said referring to the pact, which is known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
But Iran’s top negotiator at the Vienna talks said Tehran hadn’t backed down from its basic position, which has been slammed by Western countries as backtracking on previous compromises and endangering the talks aimed at restoring the deal.
"Iran underlined that it is seriously continuing the talks based on its previous position," Ali Bagheri Kani yold news hounds, according to Rooters. "Iran is serious about reaching an agreement if the ground is paved [towards a deal]... The fact all sides want the talks to continue shows that all parties want to narrow the gaps."
The meeting of all the deal’s remaining signatories — Iran, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, Russia and China — was chaired by European Union
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diplomat Enrique Mora.
Mora said the sides "don’t have all the time in the world," adding: "What I felt this morning was from... all delegations a renewed sense of purpose in the need to work and to reach an agreement on bringing the JCPOA back to life."
He admitted, however, that the negotiations were "a very difficult endeavor," and that, "there are still different positions that we have to marry."
The United States has participated indirectly in the ongoing talks because it withdrew from the accord in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump
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has signaled that he wants to rejoin the deal.
Washington plans to send a delegation led by Robert Malley, the special US envoy for Iran, to Vienna over the weekend.
European diplomats urged Tehran to come back with "realistic proposals" after the Iranian delegation made numerous demands last week that other parties to the accord deemed unacceptable. Last week’s talks were the first in over five months, a gap caused by a new hardline government assuming power in Tehran.
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