Lausanne Talks: Deal,but not an Agreement
Lausanne Talks: Deal,but not an Agreement Assist. Prof. Bayram Sinkaya, ORSAM Advisor and Yıldırım Beyazıt University Last week, a remarkable step is takenas a result of negotiations that aimed to find a diplomatic solution to the stalemate over Iranian nuclear program. Foreign Ministers of the P5+1states (Permanent Members of UN Security Council and Germany) and Iran come together in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 26. Thenegotiations, whichwere held within the framework of Joint Action Plan (JAP) that had been signed in Geneva in November 2013, reached a deal at the end of eight-day talks. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and M. JavadZarif, Foreign Minister of Iran,issued a joint statement and announced a general framework of the settled points. The Lausanne ‘Deal’ The joint statement issued by Mogherini and Zarifdeclared that the parties agreed on the points thatIran will continue to pursue