Borrell presents Iran and the US with a closed text to recover the nuclear agreement

MADRID, 8 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, as coordinator of the negotiations between the United States and Iran, has already delivered a closed "final text" to resume the 2015 nuclear agreement that they will now have to decide if they accept Washington and Tehran.

"What could be negotiated has been negotiated and now it is a final text. However, behind each technical issue and each paragraph there is a political decision that the capitals must make," Borrell explained in a message posted on Twitter. "If the answers are affirmative, we will be able to sign this agreement," she stressed.

Borrell explained that in the last days of negotiations between the United States and Iran, "a handful of pending issues have been addressed in the text that I put on the table on July 21" to reinstate the Comprehensive Joint Action Plan", the nuclear agreement from 2015.

The news was given by the Russian ambassador to the international institutions based in Vienna, Mijail Ulianov, in a message on Twitter: "Last minute! The EU coordinator has circulated 'the final text' of the draft (... The participants in the Vienna negotiations will now have to decide if the draft is acceptable to them. In case there are no objections, the nuclear agreement will be restored," he said.

After more than 15 months of contacts, negotiations have been closed that now depend on the decision of the US president, Joe Biden, and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi.

The final decision could be made in a matter of weeks, so Monday's announcement could also be interpreted as the start of a countdown.

The agreement is in force, although very damaged by the decision of the United States to withdraw unilaterally in 2018. Since then, Iran has been progressively withdrawing from its commitments, although it has been willing to resume them as long as Washington withdraws its sanctions.