![]() The discussions that we had on Saturday afternoon and Saturday dinner have been very fruitful, and our purpose is to ensure the stability of the region. Of course, I want to be very cautious and very modest, but I think that this is going to lead to bringing an end to escalation and reaching a suitable solution to this. I would like to thank our ministers who have been totally involved in these discussions and have set the stage for these discussions and for an agreement. A lot of messages have been conveyed, a lot of work has been done between our ministers. I think that this meeting is very important, and the last few days have clarified the situation. Myself and the partners who have a role to play in nuclear negotiations will also be fully involved in these negotiations. I hope that in the next few weeks, based on our discussions, we will be able to achieve the meeting that we just mentioned between President Rouhani and President Trump. We know the terms, we know the objectives, but we have to just now sit around the table and make that happen. That’s what I told Minister Zarif and this what I mentioned to President Rouhani on the phone as well, that if he agreed to a meeting with President Trump that my conviction was that an agreement can be made. This morning, President Rouhani said that he was prepared to meet any political leader in the interest of his country. We will have to move ahead together to find an outcome. A roadmap has sort of been set, but nothing is absolutely set in stone. We coordinated our efforts and we reached the decision to bring together the Foreign Minister of Iran to have a meeting with the French Foreign Minister. has taken in the last few months have put a lot of pressure and have put us in the situation where it is indeed necessary to improve the security situation of the region. There were two very clear things that mattered to us: Iran should never have the nuclear weapon, and its situation should not threaten the stability of the region.įrance has taken a lot of different initiatives, and I’ve always informed President Trump on them to be able to get the technical means to move forward because the decisions that the U.S. We agreed that Iran needs to comply with its nuclear obligations and have responsible behavior in the Gulf and work with us. There are a few things that are expected from both our countries.Īs far as Iran is concerned, President Trump and myself have had discussions in the last few weeks, in particularly the last couple of days. ![]() From that point onward, we set the pace and kept the ball rolling to be as efficient as possible to the very end. As soon as President Trump arrived with the one-to-one lunch that we had together, I think that was the most productive and interesting conversations that we’ve had together. We like to achieve concrete results and to provide momentum to the work. ![]() But one thing we have in common with President Trump is they don’t like to waste our time. ![]() I just wanted to say that for the last two days we have worked a lot together on several common points where we have a lot of things in common. We wanted to hold this joint conference together because next year it is the United States of America that will host the G7 Summit, and we are going to pass baton on to President Trump. But I just wanted to sum up the different items on which we have agreed and the topics on which we have made headway, biodiversity, digital economy, amongst others. Of course, President Trump and the First Lady will then proceed with their own press conference to the American press, where other discussions will take place. Now, we have decided to hold this joint conference, I’m going to give the floor to President Trump. But it’s just one page, one page that covers some of the key items that were addressed. We haven’t negotiated a very long text, as promised, and you will get just a one-page declaration but there will be a lot of different annexes to it. I can say what we were really keen on was to convey a positive and joint message following our discussions on several topics. There was a lot of nervousness at the outset, a lot of expectations, a lot of tensions and we had a lot of conflict. President, Madam First Lady, ladies and gentlemen, following this G7 meeting that we have just held, and we’ve been discussing for two days now, and I’m going to report back to you but first of all, I’d like to thank President Trump and all the head of states and government present here for the extremely productive work and the very productive discussions that we’ve had since Saturday evening together. ![]()
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