The Government of Canada is preparing to lift sanctions against Iran – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, January 27 – RIA Novosti. The Government of Canada is going to remove sanctions against Iran, reports Agence France-Presse, with reference to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephen Dion .

“Canada will lift the sanctions”, – said Dion, answering journalists’ questions in the House of Commons. “We will change this policy,” – he said, noting that the sanctions were not “nothing good” to anyone.

Specific dates lifting of sanctions in the message is not listed.

Last week in Davos, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau told RIA Novosti that the issue of lifting of economic sanctions in Canada with Iran will be decided at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, possibly in the next month or two.

Iran and “Six” international negotiators (UN Security Council members Russia, China, US, France, Britain and Germany) on the night of July 14, 2015 reached a historic agreement on the settlement of long-term problems of the Iranian atom.

lasting a total of more than ten years of negotiations culminated in the adoption of the joint comprehensive action plan (SVPD), the implementation of which removes Iran earlier economic and financial sanctions by the UN Security Council, the United States and the European Union in exchange for the verification of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.

Sixteenth January came the day of implementation of the agreement on SVPD immediately after the preliminary steps the IAEA by Iran that have been undertaken in the framework of reducing the nuclear potential of the country.