Referring to the draft understanding submitted by Josep Borrell, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, to all parties to the CPA, which deals in exact

detail with the reduction of sanctions on Iran in exchange for the necessary nuclear steps to get the Iran nuclear deal back on track, With regard to the final text submitted by Borrell with a view to reviving Iran's nuclear agreement, The Commission's spokesperson for foreign affairs for the European Union, Peter Stano, said during a briefing today: Mr. Borrell's role is not to impose a deadline on participants. We have a final text now before the negotiators and wait for a yes or no answer.

The European Union had confirmed that Borrell had not set a time limit for receiving the responses of the capitals concerned to his final text

Stano said, "4 days of debate and attempts to bring views closer to Vienna are over, where we negotiated what could be negotiated."

He noted that Borrell "currently expects decisive political decisions by States to sign this deal."

Vienna hosted intensive talks to revive an agreement on Iran's nuclear programme signed in 2015 between Tehran and major international powers (permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as Germany), from which the US unilaterally withdrew in May 2018.

Following Washington's withdrawal from the deal, it reimposed economic sanctions on Iran, and Tehran responded by abandoning some of the restrictions on its nuclear activity provided for in the agreement.