AFP, Luebeck :
US Secretary of State John Kerry today welcomed a compromise with Congress on giving lawmakers a say on any final deal on Iran’s nuclear programme, with negotiations set to resume next week.
Kerry said the measure approved yesterday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which raises the threshold for critics in Congress to block any accord with Tehran, made him “confident” ahead of a June 30 deadline.
“Yesterday there was a compromise reached in Washington regarding congressional input,” he told reporters at a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Germany.
“We are confident about our ability for the president to negotiate an agreement and to do so with the ability to make the world safer.”
In a display of bipartisan cooperation on what has been a divisive issue, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 19-0 in favour of allowing lawmakers to review and potentially reject the final accord.
US Secretary of State John Kerry today welcomed a compromise with Congress on giving lawmakers a say on any final deal on Iran’s nuclear programme, with negotiations set to resume next week.
Kerry said the measure approved yesterday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which raises the threshold for critics in Congress to block any accord with Tehran, made him “confident” ahead of a June 30 deadline.
“Yesterday there was a compromise reached in Washington regarding congressional input,” he told reporters at a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Germany.
“We are confident about our ability for the president to negotiate an agreement and to do so with the ability to make the world safer.”
In a display of bipartisan cooperation on what has been a divisive issue, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 19-0 in favour of allowing lawmakers to review and potentially reject the final accord.
