EU says JCPOA belongs to int’l community, not a single state

She made the remarks in a news conference on the sidelines of the Oslo peace mediation conference on Tuesday.

According to official website of the European Union External Action, Mogherini said: “… when it comes to the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] - we discussed that with Minister [of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, [Javad] Zarif just yesterday - for the European Union it is crystal clear that the agreement is belonging to all international community through the endorsement of the UN Security Council. I have a special, personal role to guarantee that it is implemented fully by all and beyond that, the European Union and its Member States will continue to engage with Iran no matter what the policies of other partners we have around the world would be, to engage in different sectors, from energy to economy, science and technology matters, as we are doing. Because we always believe in dialogue and engagement, even when we have differences and difficulties and that is always the case with many of our partners in the world.”

“... first of all, I would like to underline what John [Kerry, former US Secretary of State] said. We had just ten days ago the sixth IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] report saying that the agreement is fully implemented. So we are defeating all these skeptics who first were betting on the impossibility to have an agreement, then on the impossibility of having the agreement starting to be put in place when we got to the implementation day, and then were saying in any case it will never hold; and now we are getting close to the second year and for the sixth time the IAEA says that it is fully implemented. I would like to say very clearly that I am confident that the review in the United States will bring to wise decisions which means keeping something that is working on the US side. But, in any case, the European Union will guarantee that the deal keeps, that we stick to that - it does not belong to any single country, it belongs to the international community and as far as the European Union is concerned and all the Member States, we will make sure that the agreement continues to be in place and our policy of engagement with Iran will continue, Mogherini added.

According to the landmark nuclear deal also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran limited some of its nuclear activities in return for the removal of all nuclear-related sanctions against the country.

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