Europe to fight to preserve Iran Nuclear deal despite Trump's views
Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:18:am World
4K By Collins Kelechi
- Europe to fight to preserve Iran Nuclear deal.
- Trump calls the deal an embarrassment.
- It's a multilateral not bilateral agreement says top EU official.
According to reports from senior European Officials, Europe will do its very best to ensure that the Nuclear deal with Iran is preserved despite the continuous disapproval from U.S. President Donald Trump's views that it is an embarrassment.
"This is not a bilateral agreement, it's a multilateral agreement. As Europeans, we will do everything to make sure it stays," Helga Schmid, secretary general of the EU's foreign policy service, told an Iranian investment conference in Switzerland's financial capital.
The deal was brokered in 2015 by the bloc between Iran, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China.
Since his election campaign, U.S. President has continued to insist that the deal does not serve U.S. interests and was one sided in favour of Iran.
"I‘m absolutely convinced we will not be in a better place to address any of these issues by ditching the JCPOA," Schmid said.
"The world does not need a second nuclear proliferation crisis. One is already too many," she added in an apparent reference to Washington's standoff with North Korea.
Britain's ambassador to Iran has however disclosed that the United Nations Nuclear Watchdog's reports show that Iran is fully complying with the terms of the agreement.
"We hope that President Trump will recertify the deal and that the U.S. will continue to play a constructive and important role in the implementation of the JCPOA," he told the conference.
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