Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday at a joint press conference with Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl expressed belief that the upcoming foreign ministers' meeting on the Iran nuclear issue would surely send a clear signal of solidarity to maintain and implement the Iran nuclear deal.
Chinese Foreign Minister stressed that all parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an international multilateral agreement endorsed by the United Nations Security Council, have obligations to comply with and implement it.
Failure to maintain and implement the deal would not only affect the Iran nuclear issue itself but also cause serious negative impacts on the functioning of the non-proliferation regime as well as on the situation in the Middle East, Wang Yi said.
Calling the upcoming meeting as "very timely" and "necessary", Chinese Foreign Minister said China is willing to work with the European side to continue to make unremitting efforts towards maintaining and implementing JCPOA.
The meeting to be held Friday in Vienna by foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Iran and China will be the first foreign ministers' meeting by parties remaining within the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after the U.S. withdrawal from the deal.
On May 8, U.S. President Donald Trump decided to quit the landmark nuclear deal and vowed to reimpose sanctions, including oil embargo, on Tehran, triggering global criticism.
Following the US exit, Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the accord.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has underlined that any decision to keep the JCPOA running without the US should be conditional on “practical guarantees” from the Europeans.
