{"id":87925,"date":"2018-01-11T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=eb8eb335a516d0b051f08d4e9b47bd63"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:32:00","slug":"speech-foreign-secretary-statement-following-iran-meeting-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87925","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Foreign Secretary’s statement on the Iran nuclear deal following Brussels meeting, 11 January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thank you very much. I\u2019m really going to echo what [German Foreign Minister] Sigmar Gabriel and [French Foreign Minister] Jean-Yves Le Drian have already said. This was a very important meeting. It\u2019s very important that as Europeans we come together to express a common view.<\/p>\n

That is, number one, that we greatly value the JCPoA<\/abbr> [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], the nuclear deal with Iran, we think it is a considerable diplomatic accomplishment. It\u2019s a way of stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. As my colleagues have said, Iran is in compliance with this agreement according to the International Atomic Energy Authority, and that is very, very important to us.<\/p>\n

But it is also clearly important to build worldwide support for this deal and that Iran should be able to show, as my colleagues have said, that it is a good neighbour in the region. That\u2019s why it\u2019s legitimate and right that we should, in parallel, not connected with the JCPoA<\/abbr>, but in parallel, focus on what Iran can do to resolve the appalling crisis in Yemen, to help push forward a peace in Syria and to help resolve other questions in the region.<\/p>\n

I want to stress, just in conclusion, that I don\u2019t think anybody has so far produced a better alternative to the JCPoA<\/abbr> as a way of preventing the Iranians from going ahead with their acquisition of a nuclear capability. I don\u2019t think anybody has come up with a better idea. And I think it is incumbent on those who oppose the JCPoA<\/abbr> to come up with that better solution, because we haven\u2019t seen it so far.<\/p>\n

I also think that if we can keep the deal going, which I very much hope that we can, that the Iranian people should see the economic benefits that will flow from the JCPoA<\/abbr>. And that\u2019s why the UK government together with our friends and partners in France and Germany, and of course other EU countries and [EU High Representative] Federica Mogherini, will continue to work for the continuation of the JCPoA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

Watch the Foreign Secretary\u2019s statement<\/h2>\n

Watch the Foreign Secretary\u2019s statement<\/a><\/p>\n

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Find out more about the Foreign Secretary\u2019s Iran meeting in Brussels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boris Johnson spoke at a joint press conference with the EU High Commissioner and the French and German Foreign Ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87933,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87925\/revisions\/87933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}