UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric (left) at a press conference in New York, the US (Photo: AFP/ VNA)

This was announced on Friday at a briefing by Stephane Dujarrick, a representative of the UN Secretary General. Mr. Stephane Dujarrick said the UN urged all negotiators to redouble their efforts to come to the implementation of these agreements. The UN made the statement as new negotiations to resume the nuclear deal early this week in Vienna were halted on Friday and are scheduled to be resumed next week. The negotiations involved Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia with indirect participation of the US and were mediated by the European Union.

The JCPOA on the Iranian nuclear program was signed in 2015, it assumed the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran’s nuclear program as a guarantor of Tehran’s non-receipt of nuclear weapons. However, in May 2018, the United States announced a unilateral withdrawal from it and the restoration of tough sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran has gradually begun to backtrack on its obligations under the treaty.