P5+1 starts drafting preliminary deal on Iran nuclear program - Lavrov

The P5+1 group and Iran agreed on all key aspects and are due to start drafting preliminary deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday, IRNA reported.

'We can quite certainly say that on all the key aspects of final settlement of this problem, the ministers have reached principal consent that will be, hopefully in the next hours, maybe a day, put on the paper. The experts were tasked with this,' Lavrov told reporters Wednesday.

Lavrov also said that the preliminary agreement on Iran’s nuclear program will include verification mechanisms guaranteeing peaceful nature of Tehran’s nuke and stipulate lifting sanctions.

'The agreement includes an all encompassing approach to the settlement, including verification measures of exclusively peaceful nature of nuclear program on the line of IAEA, and extensive provisions for lifting sanctions,' Lavrov told reporters, according to sputniknews.com.

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