A senior member of the Iranian nuclear negotiations team, Abbas Araghchi, has said that sanctions against Iran should be lifted on the very day a final agreement is to be implemented.

He said that when the drafting of the text of the final agreement comes to an end, a date will be fixed for it to become operational. “On that same day,” he stressed, “all economic and political sanctions against Iran have to be lifted.”

Araghchi underscored that one major demand of the Iranian nuclear negotiators is the removal of all financial and economic sanctions simultaneous with implementation of the agreement.

He said the present discussions are all focusing on the need for the sanctions to be lifted on the very day the nuclear agreement comes into effect.

The Foreign Ministry official noted that the overall agreement is already there and the negotiators are focusing on details now.

Asked to comment on recent remarks by US Secretary of State John Kerry who had said inspections of Iran will run “forever”, he said he thought there was nothing remarkable by Secretary Kerry’s comments.

Araghchi said this kind of inspection is simply part of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regulations.

He went on to note that countries sign this treaty to have their peaceful nuclear program and in return accept to give access to the Intentional Atomic Energy Agency for inspections.

He said Iran has been doing this for years now, so inspections come as no surprise.

The senior diplomat described as “slow but steady” the process of drafting the text of the final agreement and hoped it would be finished in due time.

Araghchi, who was talking to Iranian television, said there are still points of argument remaining over the wording of the agreement.

Representatives of Iran and P5+1 have resumed writing the draft of a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iran’s deputy foreign ministers Abbas Araghchi and Majid Takht-e Ravanchi, and EU political director, Helga Schmid, who represents P5+1, resumed the drafting of a final nuclear agreement in New York on Monday after a one-day break.

The director general for political and international security affairs at Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Hamid Baeidinejad, and Stephen Clement, on the part of P5+1, are holding simultaneous expert-level and technical talks.

Araghchi, Takht-e Ravanchi and Schmid continued writing the draft of the comprehensive agreement on the sidelines of the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York on Thursday. The sides began the work in Vienna, Austria, on April 22.

In a Monday tweet, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran and P5+1 are working on the draft of the final deal over Tehran’s nuclear work.

He added that the process of drafting is “moving forward” as the two sides are “determined to end this manufactured crisis and open new horizons.”

The top Iranian diplomat, however, stressed that “many brackets” still remain which need to be addressed by hard work.

Araghchi had earlier said the first draft of the deal between Iran and P5+1 would contain gaps requiring further decisions.

“It will be a tough task. This first draft will be full of disputed issues and will include parentheses and brackets, and decisions should be made about them in the future,” Araghchi said.

He, however, expressed hope that within the next days the sides would be able to write the first draft of the overarching deal “which includes all points.”

The next round of talks between the two sides would be held in a European country but the exact date has not been determined yet.

Iran and P5+1– the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany – reached a mutual understanding on Tehran’s nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.

Iran and the six-party group have agreed to finalize a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program by the end of June.