Çavuşoğlu: Russia’s Approach to Nuclear Negotiations is Negative

Turkey’s Foreign Minister criticized Russia’s current performance in negotiations to revive the JCPOA at the closing press conference of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum and said he hopes this approach will not continue.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister, at a press conference following the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, referred to Moscow’s negative approach regarding Vienna negotiations and said: “We hope this approach will not continue. If an agreement is reached, it will be in the interest of all parties, including Russia. We hope an agreement will be fully achieved.”

He noted that last month the probability of reaching an agreement in Iran’s nuclear negotiations was around 95 percent and until a week before the Antalya Diplomacy Forum it reached 99 percent.

In parallel with these remarks, 160 members of the Iranian Parliament in a statement recommended that the negotiating team in Vienna ignore the “artificial deadlines set by the West.” This statement, published on Sunday, March 13, emphasizes that Parliament will reject any agreement that leads to repeated limitations on Iran’s nuclear program.

The signatories of the statement pointed out that with the “energy crisis in the West” due to the Ukraine-Russia war, the need for Iran’s energy sector has increased and the United States’ need to reduce oil prices should not be met without considering Iran’s demands.

Seyyed Mohsen Dehnavi, Tehran’s representative in Parliament, while reading this statement and emphasizing “national interests” and “red lines,” said: “We ask our country’s negotiating team not to limit themselves to the artificial deadlines set by the West in Vienna negotiations.”

These representatives have considered “preserving essential elements of Iran’s nuclear program” as a guarantee against “repeating the mistake of America’s betrayal of the agreement.”

Source: DW