President Rouhani puts Foreign Ministry in charge of nuclear talks
Iran Press TV
Thu Sep 5, 2013 4:34PM GMT
Iran Foreign Ministry has been tasked with leading future negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group of world powers over the country’s nuclear energy program.
On Thursday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially assigned the Foreign Ministry to take charge of future nuclear talks with the P5+1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany.
The talks were previously conducted by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC).
Iran and the P5+1 group have held several rounds of talks on a range of issues, with the main focus being on Iran’s nuclear energy program. The two sides wrapped up their latest round of negotiations on April 6 in the Kazakh city of Almaty. An earlier meeting had been held in Almaty on February 26-27.
In a letter to Rouhani on August 6, European Union (EU) foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, expressed the world powers’ preparedness to engage in “meaningful talks” with Iran over the nuclear issue. The Iranian president, in return, expressed Tehran’s readiness to enter into “meaningful” negotiations with the P5+1.
The Unite States, Israel and some of their allies falsely claim that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program, with Washington and the European Union using the unfounded allegation as a pretext to impose illegal sanctions on Iran.
Tehran strongly rejects the groundless claim over its nuclear activities, maintaining that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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