Agreement on Iran's nuclear programme officially comes into force
Under the Vienna agreements, the so-called "adoption day" is established 90 days after the UN Security Council's approval of Resolution 2231. So, the measures provided by the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan and a relevant Un Security Council resolution, are taking effect on October 18.
"All the parties who signed the agreement will start practical preparation and will take the first steps towards implementing the undertaken commitments. It concerns both Iran's interaction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its movement towards the lifting of the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
A joint commission of the "P5+1" group and Iran will hold its first meeting in Vienna on October 19. Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, this mechanism is going to be permanent.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said that representatives of Iran and the European Union would ratify the Joint Action Plan the same day.
"The European Union will officially announce the removal of economic sanctions imposed against Iran on Monday after the EU and Iran ratify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Vienna," Salehi said adding the United States would lift part of the sanctions and suspend some of them the same day.
Russia's Role
Moscow has stressed many times that the Joint Plan of Action and UN Security Council Resolution 2231 are based on the Russia-proposed principles of superposition and reciprocity. The same can be said of the scheme of Iran's deal that recognizes Iran's right to a peaceful nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, under strict international control and should lead to the removal of UN Security Council sanctions and unilateral measures imposed by the United States and the European Union.
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Russian delegation, which comprised nuclear experts, offered a number of practical solutions during the talks that later became an integral part of the agreement.
"In the interests of the final settlement we agreed that the two key issues on the agenda should be solved within the framework of the Russian-Iranian cooperation via the Rosatom State Corporation for Atomic Energy," Lavrov said.
"The talk is about two joint projects: for taking out Iranian stocks of low-enriched uranium from Russia in exchange for natural uranium and for converting the former uranium enrichment facility in Fordow to the production of stable isotopes for medical and industrial purposes.
According to Russia's chief negotiator Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Russia and Iran are in a concept design stage of the project for the conversion of the Fordow facility. New consultations on this matter are to take place in a couple of months.
"We are currently at a pre design stage. Our partners in Iran and the "P5+1" group are aware of that... Technologically, the task is complicated but solvable. Rosatom has great experience in this field," Ryabkov stressed. For more information go to TASS.
