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Iran says upcoming talks should focus on its package of proposals

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

1390/02/21
05-11-2011
10:43:35
News Code :9002-13013

TEHRAN (ISNA) - An Iranian top parliamentarian Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday the upcoming talks between Iran and the five Permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany should be based on Iran's package of proposals.

The Head of Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said, "the Islamic Republic of Iran has never taken a pessimist position on dialogue with the P5+1."

Boroujerdi then expressed hope the upcoming negotiations would bear fruitful results.

"The dialogue should be based on Iran's package of proposals," he told ISNA.

The Iranian Parliamentarian said energy, security and fight against terrorism are issues which can be discussed in the fresh round of talks.

The EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, in a letter sent in early February following the January talks in Istanbul, reiterated the group's position on Iran's nuclear issue.

She also affirmed that the world powers were keen to continue talks with Iran without any preconditions.

In Brussels, the EU said Ashton had written to Iran's chief nuclear talks negotiator, Saeed Jalili, offering a resumption of talks following talks in Istanbul.

In January, Turkey hosted talks between Iran and the P5+1 aimed at resolving Iran's nuclear issue and ending western allegations that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.

The United States and the EU as well as the UN Security Council have imposed their own sanctions against Iran following the country's refusal to halt peaceful nuclear work.

Jalili answered Ashton's letter, saying the country welcomes P5+1 return to talks.

Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili in a letter to Ashton welcomed P5+1 return to the table of negotiations.

"Will of nations will replace tyrannical relations in the international system," Jalili said in the letter.

"Vein insistence of some governments on continuous unequal relations in the world and confrontation against nations' demands cannot last longer," he added.

The letter submitted to Ashton by Iranian ambassador to the EU reiterated that, "developments over past months showed that Iran's package of proposals put forward three years ago has been based on a truth understanding of realities."

He stressed respecting nations' rights and avoiding pressures as two fundamentals for bilateral cooperation.