United Nations, Oct 14 : The United Nations has said that the Secretary-General António Guterres saw the adoption of the 2015 accord reached between Iran and a group of six countries on monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme as an important breakthrough to consolidate global peace and security.
“The Secretary-General has repeatedly said that the adoption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was a very important breakthrough to consolidate nuclear non-proliferation and advance global peace and security,” said spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric in a statement on Friday, adding that the UN chief “strongly hopes that it will remain in place.
” Endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council in 2015, the JCPOA between its five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States), plus Germany, the European Union (EU) and Iran, set out rigorous mechanisms for monitoring limits on Iran’s nuclear programme, while paving the way for lifting UN sanctions against the country.
According to news reports, President Donald Trump earlier on Friday had said that he would decline to recertify Iran’s compliance with the accord.
In related news Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a statement saying that the IAEA, a specialised agency of the UN, has been, since 2016, verifying and monitoring Iran’s implementation of its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA, as requested by the UN Security Council and authorized by the IAEA’s Board of Governors.
“The Secretary-General has repeatedly said that the adoption of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was a very important breakthrough to consolidate nuclear non-proliferation and advance global peace and security,” said spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric in a statement on Friday, adding that the UN chief “strongly hopes that it will remain in place.
” Endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council in 2015, the JCPOA between its five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States), plus Germany, the European Union (EU) and Iran, set out rigorous mechanisms for monitoring limits on Iran’s nuclear programme, while paving the way for lifting UN sanctions against the country.
According to news reports, President Donald Trump earlier on Friday had said that he would decline to recertify Iran’s compliance with the accord.
In related news Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a statement saying that the IAEA, a specialised agency of the UN, has been, since 2016, verifying and monitoring Iran’s implementation of its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA, as requested by the UN Security Council and authorized by the IAEA’s Board of Governors.
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