Iran, Russia agree to continue nuclear talks on Tuesday
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Moscow, Feb 21, IRNA
Iran-Moscow-Talks
The Iranian and Russian negotiating teams agreed to pursue later on Tuesday their talks on Moscow's proposal to enrich Iranian uranium on Russian soil, it was reported here Monday evening.
The Iranian delegation, headed by Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Hosseini-Tash, told IRNA at the end of his talks Monday with the Russian side that any further discussions or final decision would be made after the talks on Tuesday (today).
He declined to explain details of his five-hour talks Monday with the Russian side.
On Monday, Hosseini-Tash held closed-door talks with his Russian counterpart, Valentin Sobolev, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyac and Russian National Security Council chief Sergei Ivanov in the Kremlin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whom President Vladimir Putin assigend to report to him on the progress of the negotiations, said that Moscow hopes Iran's nuclear case will be resolved within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran had earlier assessed the Russian nuclear proposal as "constructive," saying it may be a positive step towards resolving the nuclear issue if its shortcomings and ambiguities were removed.
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