European foreign ministers insisted on the return to calm in Iraq and respect for the moribund Iranian civil nuclear agreement (JCPoA) on Friday 10 January at an extraordinary meeting convened after the recent acute crisis between the United States and Iran on Iraqi territory.
“The region can not afford another war”, said the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, after the meeting. “We call for urgent deescalation”, he added.