“The two sides will continue with their expert and technical talks to prepare technical and expert issues for the next round of political negotiations which will be held in Vienna next week,” said Hamid Baeidinejad, head of the Iranian delegation in today’s technical talks. (IRNA/Press TV, 6 May)
The Vienna talks will begin on 13 May. Negotiators will aim to resolve outstanding issues before their interim agreement expires on 20 July.
The scope of Iran’s enrichment program, including the type and numbers of centrifuges; the future of Arak heavy-water reactor; the extent of future IAEA inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities; the removal of all UN and international sanctions, including a UN resolution prohibiting ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads; and the length of the agreement itself would be among the major topics of discussion among negotiators.
Every effort should be expended in curbing Iran's development and the heavy sanctioning of that fascist regime should continue, until plans can be worked out for its removal.
ReplyDeleteThe Iranians have been stating in public their ballistic missile program is not part of the negotiations. The Russians have also made some public comments to that effect. (It's not written into the JPA.)
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see how this is either addressed or not addressed.
The two sides could decide to handle the issue of long range ballistic missiles outside the current nuclear talks, which could pave the way to reach a final, comprehensive accord by 20 July. But the issue needs to be handled in one shape or another. As part of any final agreement, all UN sanctions resolutions should be lifted, including the 1929 addressing this particular issue.
Deletethe missile program itself should not be a part of this....EXCEPT...... for any work on designing and fitting nuclear warheads upon those missiles..... that is obviously central to negotiations concerning Iran and nuclear weapons.
Deletesaying that working in delivery systems for nuclear weapons isn't part of the negotiations is about as legitimate as saying that removal of all sanctions isn't open for discussion.
Just as Mark have stated, the Iranian officials and their Russian counterparts have mention on numerous occasions that Iran ballistic missiles program is not available for discussion. If anybody should be aware of this it's the Russians who are a party to the UN sanctions imposed on Iran and also a party to the nuclear negotiations to remove this sanctions. They say the missile program is not being discussed as part of the final status and I believe this is not borne out of ignorance. Let's not discuss this issue based what we want but on what is coming from the negotiating parties.
ReplyDeleteVienna talks are not so important like a recent Iranian meeting with Russians, about prospects regarding new plans for their cooperations to develop Iran's cosmic space abilities.....
ReplyDeleteThis web site somehow preferes themes which are important for Iran's adversaries policies over those which will project future strenght of Iran and true benefits for its people.
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