COPENHAGEN: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday the coming weeks offered an “opportunity” to hammer out a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program, after European powers triggered a 30-day deadline for sanctions to come back into force.
“We are entering a new phase with this 30 days that is now giving us also the opportunity to really find diplomatic ways to find a solution,” Kallas told journalists.
“We have this 30 days to sort things out,” she added.
France, Britain and Germany on Thursday set off a mechanism that could reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran in 30 days for failing to comply with commitments over its nuclear program it agreed to a decade ago.
Russia condemned the move to launch a process that could reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, saying it was absurd to solely blame Tehran for the collapse of the 2015 nuclear accord.
