BRUSSELS. Dec 17 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov argued on Monday that a definitive solution to the Iranian nuclear activities problem is achievable provided a recent nuclear deal in Geneva between the international community and Iran is strictly complied with.
"The main point - our European colleagues are in complete agreement with us on this - is not to try to revise what has been agreed, not to try to put broader or narrower interpretations on that agreement but implement exactly what is written down in the Geneva document: Iran freezes a significant part of its nuclear program while the unilateral sanctions that the United States and European Union have introduced against Iran get frozen and gradually lifted," Lavrov said after a meeting in Brussels with EU officials.
He warned that seeking a definitive solution would be a harder task than achieving the Geneva deal.
"But we have a feeling that we and our European partners are determined to try to attain this objective. There is certain pessimism about chances for a definitive settlement. No such pessimism is traceable in our own attitudes or those of the EU. We will, of course, press - together with our American partners and the Iranians, I hope, - for this acute, serious problem to be definitively closed," he said.