Iran's nuclear deal beneficial to intel community: China
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the 2015 nuclear agreement Iran signed with major world powers is beneficial to the entire world and must be upheld.
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Speaking at the 73rd annual session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, Wang said his country still supports the nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in 2015 despite US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from it.
He added that the multilateral deal was endorsed at the time by the global body’s powerful Security Council.
He emphasized that along with China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany are supporting the deal as it “serves the common interests of all parties concerned and the international community at large.”
Russia to strive to maintain Iran nuclear deal: FM Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also on Friday slammed the United States' move to pull out of the nuclear accord, saying Moscow will do "everything possible" to preserve the JCPOA despite the US withdrawal.
Delivering his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Lavrov said Trump's pullout from the deal was part of a dangerous trend of unilateral measures that risk damaging the post-World War II global order.
The top Russian diplomat emphasized that the US move was a breach of UN resolutions and a threat to stability in the Mideast while Iran "keeps carrying out all its obligations."