Ministers from the 195 countries at the talks are now working on the draft text of a possible agreement.
This was confirmed to me by his minister of justice, who is working on the draft statute.
"We sense the glass is half full," said an official, who has been working on the draft communiqué but was not permitted to speak publicly.
Timothy J. Bartik, a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research who is working on the draft with John H. Bishop of Cornell, estimates that it would cost about $20,000 for each job created.
Anders Mertzlufft, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry, confirmed that Rabbi Metzger had met with members of the group working on the draft legislation, but declined to give details of when they might be finished.
The negotiators are working on the draft text of a joint statement that would detail an interim deal which would slow down, and in some areas halt or roll back, the Iranian nuclear programme, while granting limited western sanctions relief.
Mary McCord, who served as acting head of the Justice Department's National Security Division until May, told HuffPost the office was working on the draft legislative proposal during the Obama administration, and the work continued in the Trump administration.
"We are working on the draft of a sharia penal code where the punishment for adultery, if there are four eyewitnesses, is stoning," said Qarizada, who is also head of the Afghan Independent Bar Assn.
Meanwhile, Juan Manuel Galán, a senator from Colombia's Liberal party, told me last November that he had travelled to Jerusalem to meet the scientist in his laboratory while he was working on the draft for his proposal to have medicinal marijuana legalised, which was approved by the Colombian Senate in December and will be debated in the House of Representatives this March.
Meanwhile, Juan Manuel Galán, a senator from Colombia's Liberal Party, told me last November that he had traveled to Jerusalem to meet the scientist in his laboratory while he was working on the draft for his proposal to have medicinal marijuana legalized, which was approved by the Colombian Senate in December and will be debated in the House of Representatives this March.
