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After the absence of meetings between them, and for the first time in almost three years, senior diplomats from Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States met and held virtual discussions on Iran, China and the climate.
The US State Department told Al-Arabiya: It will consult with allies and Congress on a new deal with Iran, indicating that the Iran issue is of great concern to the US administration.
He also added: “We need the efforts and cooperation of the international community,” indicating that it is natural to move forward to discuss the missile files and Tehran’s powers later.
The consultation stage
The US State Department clarified that the envoy on Iran is working to form a team of experts, noting that it is still in the consultation stage and that there are currently no steps towards Tehran.
He said that the meeting of Washington Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with his European counterparts discussed Iran, China and the climate.
In turn, the British Foreign Office announced that the foreign ministers of the three European countries and the US Secretary of State had held virtual conversations on topics such as Iran, China, Myanmar, climate change and the Corona virus epidemic.
The last time that senior foreign officials from the four countries held a quadruple meeting was in April 2018.
Paris Climate Agreement
The meeting of Anthony Blinken and his British counterparts Dominic Raab, German Heiko Maas and Frenchman Jean-Yves Le Drian came a day after Joe Biden informed US diplomats at the State Department that “America is back. .. diplomacy is back. “
Biden has also drifted far from the “America First” policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, on issues like climate change and Russia.
One of Biden’s first actions as president was to upset Trump’s withdrawal from the United States from the 2015 Paris climate accord.
In turn, Britain, which chairs the Group of Seven major industrialized countries this year and which will host the Global Climate Conference in November, welcomed the renewed interest of the United States to collaborate with its allies across the world. world.
Source: Al-Arabiya Net + Major General
