Tehran, March 16, IRNA – European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said 7 of organization’s officials will accompany her to Tehran during her April 16 visit.

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry Director General for Political and International Security Affairs Hamid Baeedinejad, the EU chief said at the press conference following the Foreign Affairs Council that “on Iran, I shared with the Ministers our plans. First of all I gave an assessment of the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which is on good track.

The IAEA also recently confirmed that Iran is sticking to its commitments. We exchanged and shared an assessment following the elections in Iran. That was a clear vote of confidence in President Rohani's agenda especially on economic reforms.”

“And I shared with the Ministers plans and preparation of my visit on the 16 April with a number of Commissioners, in particular Commissioner Cañete, for energy and Climate, Commissioner Moedas, for research, Commissioner Vella for environment, Commissioner Bie?kowska, for enterprises, Commissioner Stylianides, for humanitarian affairs, Commissioner Navracsics, for education and Commissioner Bulc, for transport,” she added.

She stressed that “this outlines already the different elements and different issues we are going to cover in our dialogue with our Iranian counterparts. We will have political consultations, including consultations on human rights, but also dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment, on energy, including oil and gas, renewables and energy efficiency, and also civil nuclear cooperation that is something that comes out of the JCPOA as a natural field of engagement for the European Union. In the field of transport, it will cover in particular the work that we can commonly do on aviation safety.”

She said “We also discussed about the need for a dedicated dialogue on migration with Iran, the fight against drugs, the field of research, education, science and environment and obviously the regional issues that are going to be always on our agenda with Iran.”

By IRNA