The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc is determined to save a 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries despite the United States’ move to withdraw from the deal.

Mogherini was speaking to reporters on Monday upon her arrival at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. This is the first meeting on ministerial level following the US pullout from the nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“Today on the agenda of the foreign ministers, we have first and foremost our work to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran,” she said.

She added, “You know that we have been acting already at European Union level to put in place a set of measures to make sure that the nuclear agreement is preserved and the economic investments from the European side, but also from other sides in the world are protected.”

She noted that the EU foreign ministers plan to hold talks on the issue so that they would be able to “contribute and compliment on their side to the measures that we have put in place on the level of the European Union.”