Speaking to journalists in Singapore after signing the documents on Iran's joining the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), Zarif said: "We haven't had few meetings with the United States; Maybe we had the highest number of meetings with the Americans in two years, but the incumbent administration has shown it does not honor its commitments."
He added: ''Meeting for the sake of meeting means nothing. The Americans have to show that the meetings will lead to agreements that will be respected."
Today even the US allies cannot trust the commitments made by Washington, the Iranian foreign minister said. Referring to US withdrawal from international conventions, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Paris Conventions, Zarif said that the US should be ready to engage in talks based on dialogue on the one hand and know that pressure and dialogue do not go together on the other hand.
Earlier, The U-S president has repeatedly denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement also known as NAFTA. Donald Trump has threatened to walk away from the treaty describing as the worst trade deal. The agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico governs trade to the tune of 1-trillion dollars. Several rounds of talks aimed at salvaging the deal have been unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, Trump framed his decision to pull the US from the landmark Paris climate agreement as “a reassertion of America’s sovereignty”, adding he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
Zarif added: "The thing noteworthy in the meetings with Singaporean prime minister and all the foreign ministers from different countries was that they were all determined to keep Iran nuclear deal and make use of innovative methods to continue with their economic relations with Iran."
'All the countries with whose officials I met and conferred, stressed the need to protect their independence against the US policies regarding Iran nuclear deal and preserving the deal as a diplomatic achievement,' the Iranian foreign minister added.
