Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Thursday discussed the Iranian nuclear program with political directors of the British, German and French Foreign Ministries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Russian side stressed “the importance of exercising restraint with regard to any steps that would further complicate the implementation of comprehensive agreements and create uncertainty about their future fate”.
It was also noted that it was important to bring the remaining participants in the PRS together to put the implementation of the Action Plan back within the originally agreed framework.
In 2015, the “Six” (UK, Germany, China, France, Russia, USA) and Iran announced the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan. The agreement provided for the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran’s nuclear programme. The deal did not last three years in its original form: in May 2018, the U.S. announced a unilateral withdrawal from it and the restoration of tough sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement.