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On 4 December in Vilnius, Political Director of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Dalius Čekuolis met with the British, French and German Ambassadors to discuss an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme that has been reached in Geneva.

This  initial deal  allows for a six-month period of voluntary measures that  limit Iran's nuclear program,  halt  higher-grade enrichment of uranium, freeze uranium-enrichment capacity,  reduce Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium and upgrades the current level of cooperation with IAEA in exchange to limited and reversible sanctions relief.

Ambassador Čekuolis welcomed the interim deal on Iran’s nuclear programme that was reached under the leadership of the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. D. Čekuolis expressed hope that as negotiations to produce a lasting solution continue, mutual confidence-building measures will be implemented.

The diplomatic agreement is seen as a good starting point, especially in view of a decade of mutual tensions. However, this is only the first step towards sustainable diplomatic solution and we are still waiting for concrete action in the future.

The United Kingdom and France are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and together with other three permanent members of the UN Security Council – the U.S., China, and Russia – and Germany for nearly a decade have been negotiating for a diplomatic solution of the Iranian nuclear activities that have worried the international community.

The aim of the negotiations is to reach a permanent, comprehensive and verifiable agreement, which would clearly demonstrate the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme to the world.