"Just like our Chinese counterparts, we are interested in preserving and
fully implementing the JCPOA,” Lavrov said at a meeting with his Chinese
counterpart, Wang Yi, in Vienna on Friday.
"The situation is complex, but, just like China and other parties to the deal,
we are committed to international law and the UN Security Council’s decision
this plan was enshrined in thus becoming part of international law," the
minister stressed, according to Russia's official TASS news agency.
The remarks came ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, China,
Britain, France, and Germany in Vienna later today to discuss Europe’s package
of economic measures to save the JCPOA following the US exit.
On May 8, the US president pulled his country out of the JCPOA, which was
achieved in Vienna in 2015 after years of negotiations among Iran and the Group
5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany).
Following the US exit, Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the
accord.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has
underlined that any decision to keep the JCPOA running without the US should be
conditional on "practical guarantees” from the Europeans.
Source: Tasnim