Al Jazeera quotes European sources: The Vienna talks are positive

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, Al-Jazeera quoted European sources close to the Vienna talks as positive, but claimed that there was still a long way to go before an agreement could be reached.

According to the report, the sources said that “(Iran’s) nuclear commitments are going well, but the dispute over the lifting of sanctions remains deep.”

Al-Jazeera sources further claimed that “we are still below the level of work needed to revive the nuclear deal.”

“It is impossible to set a timetable for the talks, but we are talking about weeks,” they added, according to the report.

“Ali Bagheri,” the chief negotiator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, today (Thursday) told reporters about the talks that began on Monday, January 26, in Vienna between Iran and the P4 + 1 group on lifting sanctions, stating that the main focus of the talks was on The eighth round was about lifting the sanctions, he said: “In several areas, talks and interactions between the Iranian side and the other side continued, including several meetings on the issue of verification, both with the coordinator of the Joint Commission and with the European side.”

The senior negotiator of Iran noted: On the issue of verification, meetings were held between the Iranian side with the coordinator of the joint commission and a separate meeting was held with three European countries.

He added that there had been correspondence between the two sides in the field of lifting sanctions, and that relatively good progress had been made in the first few days of the eighth round.

In conclusion, Bagheri said that the talks of the last few days (eighth round) were positive, and expressed hope that after the return of Western colleagues and others from the New Year holidays to Vienna, more serious work on the lifting of sanctions will be pursued by various parties.

The eighth round of talks between Iran and the P4 + 1 group to lift sanctions against Iran began with the inaugural meeting of the Joint Commission of the UN Security Council on Monday evening, January 26, in Vienna. The meeting discussed the negotiation process and also discussed how to continue the talks.

The current round of Vienna talks on the occasion of the New Year has been temporarily suspended from noon today (Thursday) and will resume on Monday next week, according to Enrique Mora, EU Deputy Foreign Minister and Coordinator of the Vienna Summit. It becomes.

The eighth round of Vienna talks is coming to a temporary end today, with Russian envoy Mikhail Ulyanov announcing yesterday that the parties to the UN Security Council are satisfied with the positive outcome of the talks.

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