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EU says big step made on Iran nuclear deal implementation

Xinhua, January 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

The European Union's foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, said here on Monday that what had been achieved on Saturday in Vienna to resolve the agreement over Iran's nuclear deal was an important step in the right direction for the Middle East.

She was referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano's announcement that Iran had completed the necessary preparatory steps to start the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an international deal on Tehran's nuclear program reached in July 2015.

Also on Saturday, the EU lifted all nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions on Iran.

Mogherini made the remarks on the latest developments on the Iran issue upon arriving at an EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.

"What we have done is a big and important step, not only for the security of the world in terms of nuclear programs, but for the region because we have shown that even the most difficult relations can come to positive results, through dialogue, through diplomacy, through cooperation," she said.

"This is true also for the actors in the region. We know peace is not going to come soon and easily as the deal did not come soon and easily. But it came in the end," said Mogherini. Endit