Seyed Abbas Araghchi told reporters in Vienna just before departing the city that the issue of rolling back to previous sanctions regime was an important issue both sides had considered; “we came to the negotiations here in Vienna with distrust, and that is a fact; we do not trust the western negotiators at all; they do not trust us either; thus we working on an arrangement to allow both sides to withdraw and return to status quo ante should it felt the other side violated its commitments,” Araghchi told the press in Vienna.
He also said that Iranian negotiators had predicted for necessary measures to roll back to status quo ante, and that the western negotiators ‘definitely’ would have such measures in their repertoire of possible responses.
Araghchi who was in Vienna for two hectic days of nuclear negotiations, told the press that deputy-level session brought all deputies of the 5+1 and of Iran together, and this was apart from bilateral meetings with delegations from Russia, China, and the European triad + Germany and the US, which was a review of what had been agreed as solutions in Lausanne, Switzerland.
“Any final deal will have a main draft, with predicted five appendices to that; the first appendix will address sanctions, the details, the sanctions to be removed and the possible impact assessment; the other appendix would focus upon technicalities of nuclear program and the decisions made in Lausanne as solutions to be implemented in practice,” detailed the nuclear negotiator, “a third appendix would cover peaceful nuclear cooperation with Iran and the fields these countries would have necessary permits to cooperate,” Araghchi asserted.
“In issues regarding light water reactors, research reactors, research and development, nuclear fusion and all other issues will be addressed in this appendix; the last appendix will be on the plan implementation, both sides’ commitments and the timetable,” Araghchi said. “The ultimate piece will be a very comprehensive and well-planned document, amounting to 20 pages of major draft and 40-50 pages of appendices, where all words and phrases used are individually matter of controversial debate, and the draft and appendices is replete with parentheses,” he described the final draft.
Araghchi dubbed the act of drafting very slow and strenuous task, which has much legal, technical and political sensitivity; “in technical matters, an issue would be solved, however, still unsolved politically,” he said, adding that the negotiations would definitely continue to the deadline assigned, July 1, 2015.
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