China will hold a meeting on Friday in Beijing with Russia and Iran on the “nuclear problem”, said its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and both nations sent their ministers of attachments.
The ties between Iran and Russia have deepened since the beginning of the Ukraine War in 2022, with a strategic cooperation treaty signed in January. Both have good relations with China.
China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ma Zhaoxu, will preside over the meeting, Mao Ning, spokesman for his Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a regular press conference said Wednesday.
The meeting will follow a closed doors meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York on the same day with respect to Iran’s expansion of their uranium stocks that are close to the degree of weapons.
Last week, Russia said that Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Ryabkov, discussed international efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program with his ambassador, Kazem Jalali, after informing that Russia agreed to help the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to communicate with Iran.
Tehran has long denied wanting to develop a nuclear weapon.
However, the UN Atomic Control Agency has warned that it is “dramatically” uranium enrichment to up to 60 percent purity, near the level of degree of weapons of approximately 90 percent.
Iran reached an agreement, the joint comprehensive action plan, with Great Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States in 2015, which raised the sanctions to Tehran in exchange for curbs in its nuclear program.
But Washington resigned from the plan in 2018 during Trump’s first mandate, and Iran began to move away from his nuclear commitments.
China has said that it supports Iran to protect their legitimate rights and ask for an early resumption of Iranian nuclear conversations.
