EU Debates: Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Preliminary remarks following the Foreign Affairs Council, on 9 December 2019, in Brussels.

I also personally raised Iran because on Friday we had the meeting of the Joint Commission of the JCPoA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] in Vienna, chaired by the Secretary General of the European External Action Service [Helga Schmid], which showed that all participants stand behind the agreement and want to preserve it.

This unanimous position is for us very important. I highlighted on a note, just after the meeting, that to keep this agreement alive is a collective responsibility but unless the recent negative trend on the nuclear side is not reversed it will not be sustainable. But the European Union and all participants of the Friday meeting in Vienna are very much standing behind this agreement.