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We, the EU High Representative and the Foreign Minister of the I. R.
of Iran, together with the Foreign Ministers of the E3+3 (China, France,
Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United
States), met from 26 March to 2nd April 2015 in Switzerland. As agreed
in November 2013, we gathered here to find solutions towards reaching a
comprehensive resolution that will ensure the exclusively peaceful
nature of the Iranian nuclear programme and the comprehensive lifting of
all sanctions.
Today, we have taken a decisive step:
we have reached solutions on key parameters of a Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action (JCPOA). The political determination, the good will and
the hard work of all parties made it possible. Let us thank all
delegations for their tireless dedication.
This is a crucial decision laying the
agreed basis for the final text of the JCPOA. We can now restart
drafting the text and annexes of the JCPOA, guided by the solutions
developed in these days.
As Iran pursues a peaceful nuclear
programme, Iran's enrichment capacity, enrichment level and stockpile
will be limited for specified durations, and there will be no other
enrichment facility than Natanz. Iran's research and development on
centrifuges will be carried out on a scope and schedule that has been
mutually agreed...
Fordow will be converted from an
enrichment site into a nuclear, physics and technology centre.
International collaboration will be encouraged in agreed areas of
research. There will not be any fissile material at Fordow.
An
international joint venture will assist Iran in redesigning and
rebuilding a modernized Heavy Water Research Reactor in Arak that will
not produce weapons grade plutonium. There will be no reprocessing and
the spent fuel will be exported.
A set of measures have been agreed to
monitor the provisions of the JCPOA including implementation of the
modified Code 3.1 and provisional application of the Additional
Protocol. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be
permitted the use of modern technologies and will have enhanced access
through agreed procedures, including to clarify past and present
issues.
Iran will take part in international cooperation in the field
of civilian nuclear energy which can include supply of power and
research reactors. Another important area of cooperation will be in the
field of nuclear safety and security. The EU will terminate the
implementation of all nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions
and the US will cease the application of all nuclear-related secondary
economic and financial sanctions, simultaneously with the IAEA-verified
implementation by Iran of its key nuclear commitments.
A new UN Security Council Resolution
will endorse the JCPOA, terminate all previous nuclear-related
resolutions and incorporate certain restrictive measures for a mutually
agreed period of time.
We will now work to write the text of
a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action including its technical details in
the coming weeks and months at the political and experts levels. We are
committed to complete our efforts by June 30th. We would like to thank
the Swiss government for its generous support in hosting these
negotiations.
