New York: Macron’s meeting with the president of Iran on the nuclear program

Emmanuel Macron will meet today, on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York, with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, as the prospect of all sides returning to the international agreement on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program appears to be receding. according to the French presidency.

The French president, who had dinner last Monday night with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after arriving in New York, will also have a bilateral meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden tomorrow Wednesday.

Moreover, today, meetings are planned with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shabazz Sharif, with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Liz Truss, with the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Najib Mikati, and with the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric.

Mr Macron has repeatedly phoned Mr Raisi in recent months to encourage him to accept the terms proposed by the Europeans to save the 2015 international agreement – officially the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – which aimed prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that are suffocating the Iranian economy. However, this agreement is in tatters after former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew his country from it in 2018.

“The ball is in the court of the Iranians,” Mr. Macron declared at the end of August, judging that the return to force of the agreement would be “useful”, although “it would not solve everything”.

The French president is set to detail his diplomatic priorities when he addresses the UN General Assembly later today. For the war in Ukraine, he is expected to call for increased support to Kyiv, while trying to convince several “neutral” countries, which have not condemned “the Russian aggression”, according to his entourage.

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