Lavrov: Preliminary Deal on Tehran’s Nuclear Program is being Drafted

• 04.01.2015, 09:07
•  Near East,  World

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov informed that the P5+1 group and Iran managed to achieve an agreement on all key aspects and have already tasked the experts  to start drafting preliminary deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, Sputnik News reports.

"We can quite certainly say that on all the key aspects of final settlement of this problem, the ministers have reached principal consent that will be, hopefully in the next hours, maybe a day, put on the paper. The experts were tasked with this," Foreign Minister of Russia noticed on the occasion.

In his comments to reporters Lavrov also  gave details of preliminary agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, particularly stating:

"The agreement includes an all encompassing approach to the settlement, including verification measures of exclusively peaceful nature of nuclear program on the line of IAEA, and extensive provisions for lifting sanctions." 

In spite of present optimism Lavrov hurried to warn of a lot more work to be done further ahead.

"It will not mean the end of the work, it will mean that we have fulfilled the obligations we undertook in November — to form a political framework of all political aspects of the problem and then, by the end of June as we agreed, the experts will be working on technical details which will require quite serious efforts, because as you know the devil is in detail," added Lavrov.