South Korea’s consultations with Robert Maly and Mora about the sanctions lifting talks

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday (August 19) from the back-to-back phone conversations of the country’s deputy foreign minister with “Robert Mali” and “Enrique Mora”, the chief negotiators of the United States and the European Union in the negotiations to revive the JCPOA. informed.

According to Yonhap news agency, according to the ministry’s statement, “Cho Hyun-dong” had separate phone conversations with US Special Representative for Iran Affairs Robert Mali and European Union mediator Enrique Mora to discuss the latest progress in negotiations to revive the nuclear deal known as the Comprehensive Plan of Action. to take joint action

According to this report, in these phone conversations, Cho emphasized Seoul’s support for the revival of the JCPOA and expressed hope that the agreement could help resolve South Korea’s pending issues in relation to Iran.

Political Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Bagheri, tweeted on Wednesday evening, July 22, referring to his phone call with his South Korean counterpart, and wrote: In the phone call of Mr. Cho Hyun-dong, the first deputy foreign minister of Korea, I emphasized the Iranian government and people of the new government. Korea expects Iran’s foreign exchange resources to be immediately released in Korean banks in order to provide the basis for improving relations between the two countries. The Korean side stated that Seoul is seriously looking for a way to solve this problem.

According to Fars, South Korea’s debt to Iran in exchange for the purchase of gas condensate in two banks of this country is worth seven billion dollars in total, which has not been paid since September 2018 (September 2018) under the pretext of US sanctions. Since then, there have been visits between the officials of the two countries and consultations have taken place, but practically no development has occurred in this field.

Saeed Khatibzadeh, the former spokesman of the diplomatic service, said in a weekly meeting with reporters about the payment of South Korea’s debt to Iran on June 30: A new government has come to power in Korea and they have made promises and said they want to pay Iran’s debt, but We still haven’t seen any movement and we are waiting to see what is the difference between the new government and the previous government that broke the covenant in the field of debt payment. We will give the new Korean government time to show in practice what action it will take in repaying the debts, like the friends we had in the region.

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