The Iranian Government has rejected that the preliminary agreement that it is negotiating with the United States will be signed this Sunday as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shebhaz Sharif, estimated this morning, but that it will be closed “in the next few days.”
“The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (…) will not be signed tomorrow. We will have to wait to know the exact date of the signing,” said the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, according to Iranian public television, IRIB.
Baqaei has explained that “It cannot be ruled out that it will happen in the coming days.“, but “we must be cautious when making comments due to the other party’s reservations about this process.” The Iranian spokesperson insisted that the document “focuses on the end of the war and for the moment it has been decided not to deal with the nuclear issue.”
This same Saturday, the Prime Minister of Pakistan announced that this declaration of intentions will “probably” be “finalized” in the next 24 hours through an “electronic signature” of the negotiated document; a preliminary agreement that opens the door to 60 days of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz, among other issues.
“We are closer than ever to a peace agreement. It will probably be finalized in the next 24 hours as Pakistan prepares for the electronic signing of the peace agreement immediately afterwards and for negotiations at the technical level next week,” Sharif explained on social media. The Iranian spokesman has insisted that the document “is focused on the end of the war and for the moment it has been decided not to deal with the nuclear issue.”
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was suspending allegedly planned attacks against Iran, claiming that, after holding “highest level conversations” with Iranian officials, all parties have approved the “final points” of the agreement to end the war unleashed with the Israeli and US offensive against Iran more than three months ago.
Iran has limited itself to clarifying that “so soon” Once the “competent” authorities have reached a conclusion on the negotiations, they will announce it, within the framework of the open negotiations, mediated by Pakistan, following the ceasefire reached on April 8, marked by recent exchanges of attacks.
Initially negotiation sources pointed to a signing of the memorandum on Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland, but it could be delayed until the summit of leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) scheduled for Evian, in the French Alps, from June 15 to 17.
