{"id":40650,"date":"2021-12-28T12:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=40650"},"modified":"2021-12-28T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T09:27:54","slug":"china-urges-more-consensus-building-in-vienna-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/40650\/china-urges-more-consensus-building-in-vienna-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"China urges more consensus building in Vienna talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&#8220;On the Iran nuclear issue and related nuclear non-proliferation issues, &#8216;pragmatism&#8217; and double standards should not be adopted in pursuit of selfish interests,&#8221; said Wang Qun, the Chinese envoy to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, according to the Chinese CGTN TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sanctions should also not be used for threatening casually and new sanctions should not be introduced against Iran during the negotiations,&#8221; Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>The Joe Biden administration imposed fresh sanctions on two Iranian government agencies and several officials on December 7 during the previous round of talks.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth round of negotiations\u00a0during the Christmas and New Year holidays reflected the sense of urgency on all parties to resume negotiations, Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>Since early April, representatives from China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain and Iran have held seven rounds of negotiations in the Austrian capital, with the United States involved indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>The parties have forged a new &#8220;common text&#8221; on nuclear issues and a &#8220;common understanding&#8221; on lifting sanctions, Wang said, adding that they agreed to keep negotiating thoroughly, with a focus on these key points during the eighth round of talks.<\/p>\n<p>All these consensuses laid a solid foundation for this round of talks, he added, and all parties concerned should focus on them, especially the existing ones, and work hard to expand to new areas while &#8220;properly&#8221; handling the differences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that all parties can take practical measures to jointly safeguard the current momentum and atmosphere of the negotiations and push for an early conclusion of a package solution,&#8221; Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>China will continue to firmly support the resumption of negotiations between the United States and Iran on implementing the agreement, participate constructively in the follow-up negotiations, and work with all parties to push for results, said the Chinese envoy.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u00a0government under Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement in May 2018 and unilaterally re-imposed sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>JB\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On the Iran nuclear issue and related nuclear non-proliferation issues, &#8216;pragmatism&#8217; and double standards should not be adopted in pursuit of selfish interests,&#8221; said Wang Qun, the Chinese envoy to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, according to the Chinese CGTN TV. &#8220;Sanctions should also not be used for threatening casually and [&hellip;]<\/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-40650","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\/40650","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=40650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}