Iran: "Mr. Fabius, is there a deal ? "
the Monde.fr
Geneva envoy . It was 2:56 Sunday morning when Laurent Fabius appeared up the stairs of the Hotel Intercontinental . The last meeting of the negotiations for a preliminary agreement on the Iranian nuclear Geneva had just ended and the French foreign minister was, as in the previous session on November 17 , the first to emerge .
Laurent Fabius, after the announcement of the agreement on the Iranian nuclear Nov. 24 . | AP / Martial Trezzini
In the lobby , the atmosphere was electric for half an hour. Twenty plainclothes policemen equipped with headsets and for some, bullet-proof vests , were rejected on both sides of the entrance hundred journalists , some of whom waited there for 24 hours. On the first floor , a charity ball for Anglo-Saxon expats coming to an end after raising more than 55,000 Swiss francs ( € 45 000 ) for four NGOs for underprivileged children . Women long time black or transparent negligee on interminable heels staggering crossed the hall to join their car. " What I feel ugly next to them ," grumbled an Iranian journalist scarf that had not taken enough of clothes for these negotiations extending, started Wednesday morning. A few minutes earlier , a drunk Scotsman who had tried to break into the negotiating room had to be evacuated by the police discreetly .
RELIEF TO JOURNALISTS
The time Laurent Fabius arrives down the stairs , journalists assailed . "Mr. Fabius, is there a deal ? " Shouted an American. Mister Fabius said nothing . He just lifted his thumb and nodded , still advancing towards the exit, protected by a squad of advisers and guards. This however is enough to trigger a flood of messages on Twitter.
Great relief , even some joy , was then seized the journalists of all nationalities gathered in the lobby of a five star , Iranian and Israeli side by side , showing each other their messages were being sent . Some applauded . Only the Chinese were not there : they had left the hotel in order tidy twenty minutes earlier , dropping to general amazement that they were instructed to go to sleep and that nothing would happen before daybreak. Seats on the bottom , we heard some dissenting voices, like that of the corresponding news agency Anglo-Saxon : " It's crazy , they make us wait five days in a hotel lobby and then disappear without saying anything. . were used for? " .
Each turn , every few minutes , other delegations left the Intercontinental in the same silence, towards the Palais des Nations, for the official signing of Agreement. The Iranian news agency ISNA had said a few minutes earlier it was a text of four pages.
CHOCOLATE FOR KERRY
Yet the day had a bad start . Silent or cryptic , negotiators were content to insist that many differences remained to be filled. Unlike the previous session in Geneva from November 15 to 17 , not this time to know what the meeting was held between whom and in what format , bilateral or multilateral . Also unclear whether the surprise arrival in the middle of this diplomatic marathon of Foreign Ministers , starting with Russian Sergei Lavrov, had sped or not the discussions.
Over the hours , the concept of "imminent" agreement seemed very extensible or retractable , and everyone was engaged in an exercise of over-interpretation of the lesser omen. When John Kerry , U.S. Secretary of State, spun in the afternoon to buy chocolate in Auer, the center of Geneva , famous for its black truffles , it was rumored that the agreement was signed . Enthusiasm dampened a few hours later when the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi , said that 98% of the problems were ironed out. In so tense negotiations , the remaining 2% could mean that they had failed.
In fact , it took the thumbs Laurent Fabius just before three o'clock in the morning to go Sunday, November 24, 2013 in the history of great diplomatic agreements .
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