Enrique Mora, EU envoy in Iran nuclear talks and deputy secretary-general of the European diplomatic services, slammed a possible '
violation
' of the Vienna Convention after he was briefly detained at Frankfurt airport by police German.
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“
Detained by the German police at Frankfurt airport, while I was on my way from Tehran to Brussels.
No explanation (…) they took my passport and my phones
,” said Enrique Mora on Twitter, recalling that he is “
an EU official on official mission and possessing a Spanish diplomatic passport
”.
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“
I have now been released, together with two of my colleagues, the EU ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and the head of the European diplomacy working group on Iran
,” he added. in a second message on the social network.
“
We were kept separately, and we were refused the slightest explanation for what appears to be a violation of the Vienna Convention
” on diplomatic relations, underlined Enrique Mora.
Enrique Mora "
was returning from Tehran, but the incident is now over, he is on his way again and he has taken his plane
", indicated for his part the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell, on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Berlin.
This incident comes as negotiations on Iranian civilian nuclear energy, stalled since March, have just been "
reopened
", according to Josep Borrell, who assured Friday that the situation "
is unblocking
".
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Enrique Mora had talks this week in Tehran with Iranian chief negotiator Ali Bagheri.
Iran is negotiating in Vienna with China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany to revive the 2015 agreement supposed to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring the atomic bomb, an objective denied by Tehran, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that are suffocating its economy.
