{"id":40425,"date":"2021-12-26T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=40425"},"modified":"2021-12-26T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:40:24","slug":"france%e2%80%99s-unconstructive-role-threw-wrench-in-viennatalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/40425\/france%e2%80%99s-unconstructive-role-threw-wrench-in-viennatalks\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s unconstructive role threw wrench in Viennatalks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told the IRNA news agency that the French negotiating team did not play a \u201cconstructive\u201d role in the negotiations and that it significantly slowed down the pace of talks by throwing a wrench in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe presence of French representatives at the G7 foreign ministers’ summit in Liverpool and their two-day absence at a time when delegations in Vienna were working on the drafts in the previous round of negotiations led to significant progress. However, after their return from Liverpool, a disruptive trend started again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe drafts had reached an acceptable level [of agreement], but following the return of the French envoys from the Liverpool conference and their expression of opposition to the drafts, the course of the talks was disrupted. This gave rise to certain arguments in the internal meeting of the P4+1 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian criticized \u201cnon-constructive\u201d stances taken by some European signatories to the 2015 deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), during the previous round of the Vienna talks.<\/p>\n

Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally left the JCPOA in May 2018 and re-imposed the anti-Iran sanctions that the accord had lifted. He also placed additional sanctions on Iran under other pretexts not related to the nuclear case as part of his \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

Following a year of strategic patience, Iran decided to let go of some of the restrictions on its nuclear energy program, resorting to its legal rights under the JCPOA, which grants a party the right to suspend its contractual commitments in case of a non-performance by the other side.<\/p>\n

The US administration of President Joe Biden had voiced a willingness to compensate for Trump\u2019s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it has retained the sanctions as leverage.<\/p>\n

Envoys from Iran and the P4+1 group of countries \u2014 Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany \u2014 began negotiations in the Austrian capital in April in a bid to resurrect the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0first round of the talks under Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi\u2019s administration started on November 29 following a five-month pause.<\/p>\n

During the discussions, which concluded on December 17, Iran presented two draft texts which address, separately, the removal of US bans and Iran\u2019s return to its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

The next round of the talks is expected to resume on December 27.<\/p>\n

ZZ\/PressTV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told the IRNA news agency that the French negotiating team did not play a \u201cconstructive\u201d role in the negotiations and that it significantly slowed down the pace of talks by throwing a wrench in the process. \u201cThe presence of French representatives at the G7 foreign ministers’ summit in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}