EU fails to reach consensus on Iranian oil embargo issue

No consensus was reached on Iranian embargo issue, EU High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton's spokesperson Maja Kocijancic told Trend on Thursday over telephone.

"I am not aware of any reports on this respect," she said. According to Kocijancic, foreign ministers discussed further restrictive measures for Iran in the light of the new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week on Dec. 1.

"They decided that further work will be done in this restrictive measures including energy sector with the view of the adoption of this package by the next meeting of foreign affairs council which will take place in January," she said.

The work on this has been launched, but "there was never any specific agreement on what kind of measures these will be," Kocijancic underscored. Some countries have put forward the idea of oil embargo, but there is no final decision in this respect, she added. "The new measures are being looked at right now. No consensus was reached on Iran oil embargo issue."

Energy Commissioner Gunter Oettinger's spokesperson Marlene Holzner also refuted press reports on imposing embargo on Iranian oil imports. "There is no consensus on the Iranian oil embargo," Holzner told Trend over telephone on Thursday.


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