Iran appears to be refusing to commit to the West’s demand that gives up all plans to build a nuclear bomb, the French foreign minister has declared.
Laurent Fabius said the regime must be truthful about whether they intend abide the deal with the 5+1 nations to halt its nuclear weapons project.
He told the France 24 TV news channel: “I negotiated on the nuclear agreement with the Iranians. This agreement proposes unlimited civilian nuclear energy but not military nuclear energy.
“The question now is what action there will be. We signed an interim agreement. It indicates that during this period there will be no increase in nuclear activities. On our side, we’re suspending a few sanctions.”
Iran must now move forward to a final agreement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, on giving up its military nuclear ambitions, Mr Fabius said.
He added: “The Iranians must truthfully answer the question of whether or not they agree to give up the prospect of nuclear weapons.
“Iran must give up every prospect of nuclear weapons. For the moment, this isn’t very clear on the Iranian side.
“This is the goal, and all the consequences of this must be taken on board, meaning absolute transparency. The IAEA must be able to monitor and know at any moment what’s being done.
“We must also take on board all the consequences of a renunciation of nuclear weapons in the future. This means, too, that we have to be equally certain of what’s happened previously in order to know the genealogy and clearly understand what we are monitoring.
“France hopes that things will move in this direction, but the negotiation is still ahead of us.”
Source: France Diplomatie
