British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said it was the last chance for Iran to come to the negotiating table with a solution.
Iran has a “last chance” to seriously negotiate to save the nuclear deal, British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said on Sunday at the end of a G7 meeting in which Russia was also warned about the invasion of Ukraine. .
“It is the last chance for Iran to come to the negotiating table with a serious solution to this problem,” said the minister, whose country currently chairs the group of great powers.
“There is still time for Iran to come and accept this agreement,” but “this is the last chance,” he insisted, urging Tehran to come “with a serious proposal.”.
“It is vital that they do so,” because “we will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon,” Truss told a news conference in Liverpool, northern England.
Indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States, through the mediation of the Europeans, resumed in November in Vienna to try to resuscitate the 2015 agreement, which allegedly prevented the Islamic Republic from seizing the atomic bomb.
The Americans withdrew from this text in 2018, under the presidency of Donald Trump, who restored its sanctions against Tehran, which in response has been freeing itself from the restrictions imposed on its nuclear program.
Current US President Joe Biden has said he is willing to return to the accord if Iran again fulfills its commitments; But the negotiations, which began in April and have just resumed after a five-month hiatus, appear to have stalled.
US diplomacy suspects that Iran wants to buy time to develop its nuclear program in parallel, bringing it ever closer to the bomb.
Washington warned in recent days that it would not allow Tehran to adopt this attitude and confirmed that a still imprecise plan B was in the works.
‘Huge consequences’ for Russia
According to Liz Truss, this meeting of G7 foreign ministers also showed a united front against Moscow, which the West has accused for several weeks of preparing a possible invasion of Ukraine, despite denials from the Kremlin.
The Liverpool meeting showed, according to the British minister, “the very united voice of the G7 countries that represent 50% of world GDP, saying clearly that there will be enormous consequences for Russia in case of incursion into Ukraine.”
The threat of unprecedented sanctions was formulated in recent days by Washington, including by President Joe Biden, who met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
An American official present in Liverpool had assured on Saturday that it was still possible to solve this new Ukrainian crisis “through diplomacy”.
To do this, the US government announced that it was sending its Deputy Secretary of State for Europe, Karen Donfried, to Ukraine and Russia from Monday to Wednesday, in search of “diplomatic advances to end the conflict in the Donbass”, in the eastern Ukraine, “applying the Minsk agreements”.
These agreements, reached in 2015 to end the war that broke out a year earlier in this Ukrainian region between Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists, were never respected.
Pope Francis declared on Sunday that he was praying for “dear Ukraine”, hoping that “tensions will be resolved by serious international dialogue and not by arms.” (I)
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