President Hassan Rouhani received on Sunday President of French Senate Gerard Larcher who is visiting Tehran. President Rouhani emphasized that Iran and France should grasp the opportunities created in post-JCPOA times to boost bilateral ties in fields of interest. He believed Iran-France cooperation during nuclear negotiation and hitting the JCPOA would provide good level of dynamism to Tehran-Paris relations; “exchange of delegations in both capitals well demonstrated that the nuclear deal was a prologue to more improved relations and cooperation between two countries,” he said.
Rouhani also highlighted inter-parliamentary cooperation as strengthening pillars of bilateral relations; “Iran and France have been working together in different fields of interest and today the opportunities created by easing of sanctions on Iranian economy should be exploited,” Mr. Rouhani told Larcher. He conditioned implementation of commitments provisioned in the JCPOA on the commitment shown by 5+1. “JCPOA clearly provided an example of modern diplomacy which was fit to solve conflict through negotiated agreement, which sets a precedent for other international similar issues.”
