United Nations: Great Britain, France and Germany are pressing Iran to take an agreement containing new UN sanctions.
The three European powers said that the offer gives Tehran more time for conversations about their nuclear program, but only if it allows inspectors to enter and facilitate Western fears on uranium reserves.
The UN envoys for the three countries, known as E3, issued a joint statement before a meeting of the closed doors Security Council, a day after launching a 30 -day process to reimpose the UN sanctions against Iran on their disputed nuclear program.
The E3 offered to delay the restitution of sanctions, known as Snapback, for up to six months if they will restore access for UN nuclear inspectors, approached concerns about their enriched uranium stock and participated in conversations with the United States.
“Our applicants were fair and realistic,” said the UN ambassador of Great Britain, Barbara Woodward, who read the statement. “However, as of today, Iran has not shown indications that it is taken seriously.”
“We urge Iran to reconsider this position, to reach an agreement based on our offer and to help create the space for a diplomatic solution to this long -term problem,” he said, with his German and French counterparts by his side.
In response, the UN ambassador of Iran, Amir Saeid Iravani, said that the E3 offer was “full of previous non -realistic conditions.”
“They are demanding conditions that should be the result of negotiations, not the starting point, and they know that these demands cannot be satisfied,” he told reporters.
Iravani said that E3 should support “a short and unconditional technical extension of resolution 2231”, which enshrines a 2015 nuclear agreement that raised the sanctions of the UN and the West against Iran in exchange for curbs in its nuclear program.
Chinese draft
Russia and China have proposed a draft of the UN Security Council resolution that would extend the 2015 agreement for six months and urges all parties to resume negotiations immediately. But they have not yet asked for a vote.
The couple, the strategic allies of Iran, have eliminated the controversial language of the draft, which initially proposed on Sunday, which would have blocked the E3 to reimpose the UN sanctions against Iran.
Iravani described the resolution of Russian and Chinese Draft as a practical step to give more time to diplomacy. A resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and there are no vetoes by the United States, France, Great Britain, China or Russia.
UN nuclear inspectors have returned to Iran for the first time since they suspended cooperation with them after attacks in June in their nuclear sites in Israel and the United States. But Iran has not yet reached an agreement on how I would resume complete work with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
