Intensive consultations continue almost non-stop in Vienna: Russia

Russia’s lead negotiator says the intensive negotiations in Vienna, aimed at putting the 2015 Iran agreement back on track and lifting US sanctions, go on “almost non-stop.”

“Intensive consultations continue almost non-stop in the course of the #ViennaTalks on #JCPOA,” Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted on Wednesday, referring to the deal by the acronym of its official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

He posted a picture of his meeting with US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley in the Austrian capital.

Also on Wednesday, Iran’s top negotiator Ali Baqeri-Kani said in a tweet that it is time for the negotiating partners in Vienna to take “serious decisions.”

Ulyanov replied, “I agree. It is high time to make final decisions at the #ViennaTalks on #JCPOA.”

On Tuesday, the Russian diplomat said he had discussed with European Union Deputy Foreign Policy Chief Enrique Mora “the state of affairs at the current and apparently final stage” of the Vienna negotiations.

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