JAKARTA - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot signaled Paris would reimplement a global embargo on Tehran if no concrete nuclear deal was reached by the end of August.
"Iran has violated the commitments he made 10 years ago during negotiations on Iran's nuclear deal," Barrot said in a press statement before the Board of Foreign Affairs in Brussels, Belgium.
"Therefore, France and its partners are justified to reimpose the global embargo on weapons, banking, and nuclear equipment that was revoked 10 years ago," said Barrot.
He warned that without "strict, concrete, and verifiable commitments" from Iran, they would reimpose the embargo "by the latest the end of August," and called for the opening of diplomatic processes leading to "negotiated settlement and surveillance" of Iran's nuclear activities.
"We continue to demand an unconditional immediate ceasefire and the release of all the hostages who seized Hamas, who had to be stripped of their weapons," said Barrut.
"However, we also demand that the Israeli government lift the financial blockade of the Palestinian Authority by paying a debt of 2 billion euros (Rp37.9 trillion) to the Palestinian Authority," he continued.
Barrot urged Israel to end the "colonization" of the West Bank, particularly the "dangerous" E1 settlement project, which "threatened to divide the West Bank into two and dealt a severe blow to the two-state solution."
"I believe the European Union will benefit if it follows the direction we have proposed: imposing sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for violent colonization and extremism, and stopping all forms of direct or indirect financial support for colonization," he said.
He further commented on Washington's recent announcement to impose a 30 percent tariff on EU goods, underscoring that the US economy "in dire need" the European economy to "functional."
"The threat of the United States to impose a 30 percent tariff on the European Union is an unfriendly act that resembles extortion and does not reflect the privileged relationship between the US and the European Union," Barrot stressed.
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