Madrid-Sana
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed his hope that negotiations in Vienna aimed at saving the nuclear deal with Iran would bear fruit in the coming weeks.
"We believe that the ongoing negotiations to revive the Iranian nuclear agreement can bear fruit in the coming weeks," Maas was quoted by AFP as saying at a joint press conference with his Spanish counterparts, Aranchonzalez Laya and Anne Linde, at the conclusion of a ministerial meeting of the Stockholm Initiative. .
On the twelfth of last month, the sixth round of negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement between Iran and the Four Plus One Group, which falls within the framework of the meetings of the Joint Committee of the nuclear agreement aimed at bringing the United States back to it and ensuring its full and effective implementation, began in the Austrian capital Vienna on the twelfth of last month.
On the other hand, a joint statement issued by Madrid at the conclusion of the ministerial meeting in preparation for the next conference of the states party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which was scheduled for the year 2020, but was postponed to the beginning of next year to be held in New York, according to what Gonzalez Laya explained that the member states renewed Its call on all nuclear-weapon states to encourage disarmament by adopting concrete measures to implement the objectives set out in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The fourth ministerial meeting of the Stockholm Initiative, a group of 16 countries, including Germany and Japan, formed in 2019 with the aim of presenting concrete proposals to move towards a world free of nuclear weapons, concluded today in the Spanish capital.
In addition to Germany, Spain and Sweden, which currently co-chair the group, the Stockholm Initiative includes Argentina, Canada, South Korea, Ethiopia, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Switzerland, while only five countries attended the ministerial meeting.