A US State Department official acknowledged “significant progress” in the latest round of Vienna talks, saying “significant differences” remained.
A State Department official said, “significant progress” had been made in the latest round of talks in Vienna, but that “significant differences” remained to be resolved.
“The last round of talks in Vienna was positive and we saw significant progress,” the unnamed State Department official said in an email in an interview with the Diplomatic Base on the latest round of talks in Vienna.
“Nevertheless, there are still important differences that need to be resolved,” he added.
Hours earlier, EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell tweeted that the Vienna talks had progressed well.
“I talked to Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif to talk about nuclear negotiations,” Borrell wrote on Twitter. The teams in Vienna have made good progress in recent weeks. It is now necessary for all parties to make the necessary political decisions so that we can complete the negotiations and return to the full implementation of the agreement. “Continuation of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s verification activities is vital.”
The fourth round of the Borjam Joint Commission meeting, which was attended by delegations from Iran and the P5 + 1 (Germany, France, China, Russia, and Britain) at the Grand Hotel in Vienna, ended on Wednesday evening.
In this meeting, the heads of delegations reviewed the progress achieved in the fourth and final round of texts and exchanged views on the way forward. The delegations, referring to the texts prepared as a result of numerous bilateral and multilateral meetings at various levels, expressed satisfaction with the general state of the negotiations and the course taken, and stressed the need to maintain the current pace of the talks.
The administration of US President Joe Biden, while acknowledging the failure of the “maximum pressure” policy against Iran, has said it intends to return its country to a nuclear deal with Iran. Despite this, he says his government is willing to lift only part of the sanctions against Iran.
The US government is currently trying to pave the way for its return to Burjam through ongoing talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
Former US President Donald Trump, after leaving the UN General Assembly, pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” in addition to reinstating the sanctions suspended under the agreement and imposing new sanctions on provocative policies such as the assassination of former Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
