JAKARTA – The United Nations Security Council (DK PBB) has not adopted a draft resolution to permanently lift sanctions against Iran.

Tehran and major European countries still have eight days to try and agree on a delay.

The 15-member UN Security Council is required to vote on the draft resolution on Friday, September 19, after Britain, France, and Germany began the 30-day process on August 28 to reimpose UN sanctions.

The European trio aka E3 accused Tehran of failing to comply with the 2015 deal with major countries aimed at preventing it from developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies having this intention.

Russia, China, Pakistan, and Algeria voted in support of the draft text on Friday. Nine members rejected it, while two abstained.

The Security Council’s vote has now prepared intense diplomacy for a week while world leaders including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are now in New York to attend the UN’s high-level annual General Assembly.

Britain, France, and Germany have offered to delay the re-implementation of sanctions for up to six months to provide space for negotiations on long-term deals over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Delays can be made if Iran restores access to UN nuclear inspectors, overcomes concerns about enriched uranium stocks, and engages in negotiations with the United States.

“Without the fulfillment of these most basic conditions, there is no clear way to get a quick diplomatic solution. We regret Iran has so far failed to take these steps, and we urge them to act now,” said Britain’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Barbara Woodward, told the Security Council.

“We are ready for further engagement, diplomatically, next week, and beyond, to seek to resolve differences,” he continued.

The postponement of the re-implementation of sanctions will require a Security Council resolution. If an extension agreement cannot be reached by the end of September 27, all UN sanctions will be reinstated.

The acting US Ambassador, Dorothy Shea, said that although the US voted “no” on Friday, it “does not hinder the possibility of real diplomacy.”

The re-imposition of sanctions against Iran called Shea did not hinder the lifting of sanctions in the future through diplomacy”.

“More importantly, President Trump continues to reaffirm the United States’ readiness to have a meaningful, direct, and future dialogue with Iran both before the end of the snapback process on September 27, and after,” he told the council.

French Ambassador to the United Nations, Jerome Bonnafont, said that since the 30-day process known as the snapback began, foreign ministers Germany, France, and Britain had met their partners twice from Iran.

“We are still holding out our hand to find a negotiated solution,” he told the Security Council before the vote.

Separately, Iran’s strategic allies, Russia and China, completed a draft Security Council resolution late last month that would extend the 2015 deal for six months and urged all parties to resume negotiations immediately. However, they have not asked for a vote.

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