Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart that Moscow and Beijing would try to block any U.S. attempt to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

“We are against revising these agreements, we consider it very counter productive to try to reduce to zero years of international work carried out via talks between the six major powers and Iran,” TASS quoted Lavrov as saying after talks with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, in Beijing.

“We will obstruct attempts to sabotage these agreements which were enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution,” Lavrov was cited as saying. 

Meanwhile, the speakers at the Preparatory session of the 2020 Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations in Geneva today (Monday) called for implementation and preservation Iran nulear deal.

The U.N. High representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu speaking at the meeting said the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action continues to be the best way to ensure the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme.

EU disarmament envoy Jacek Bylica said the deal strengthened the international non-proliferation regime, and contributed to regional and international security.

After talks with the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi in Beijing today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he has agreed with his Chinese counterpart to block any U.S. attempt to sabotage the deal.

(Reuters)