JCPOA Joint Commission statement

EghtesadOnline: JCPOA Joint Commission meeting held on the eve of the first anniversary of the implementation of JCPOA in Vienna on Tuesday.

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12 January 2017

Representatives of Iran and P5+1 at the end of their meeting released a statement.

According to ISNA, here is the context of the statement:

The event held at deputy ministerial level and was co-chaired by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and the Secretary-General of the European External Action Service Helga Schmid.

The Joint Commission meeting held to address the concerns raised in the letter of Iranian Foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif to Mogherini.

As Iran asked, meeting of working group on sanctions and expert-level meeting between Iran and US held on Monday prior to Joint Commission meeting.

All parties in Joint Commission meeting reaffirmed their commitment to continue the effective implementation of JCPOA. The Commission underlined guarantees provided by the United States that the extension of Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) would not violate the nuclear deal and has no effect on the process of lifting the sanctions under JCPOA as well as imposing no limitations on companies to hold business and trade transactions with Iran.

This meeting was an opportunity to consider some of nuclear issues of JCPOA.