Vienna JCPOA Sanctions Lifting Working Group MeetingVIENNA, Jan 16 Working The Sanctions Lifting Group held a meeting as part of the Vienna talks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian Nuclear Program (JCPOA), Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, said. «The sanctions lifting working group held a meeting today as part of the Vienna talks on the JCPOA» , — Ulyanov said on Twitter. In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the USA, France and Iran signed a nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which involved the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, then-U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment. On December 27, the eighth round of negotiations in Vienna to renew the JCPOA and lift Washington's sanctions on Tehran started. Even during the seventh round, in December, the parties reached an agreement on two draft agreements, in which the European side included the positions of Iran. The talks were suspended on December 31 due to the New Year holidays and resumed on January 3.
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