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Iran, Russia delegations meet in Geneva

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Wed 16 Oct 2013 - 10:28

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian and Russian delegations met on the sidelines of the Geneva meeting in Switzerland in an official bilateral session.

Iranian and Russian deputy foreign ministers met bilaterally after Tuesday talks.

Also Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi as well as Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov held talks in a working breakfast.

Negotiating teams from Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) ended the first day of talks on Tuesday.

The Iranian delegation is comprised of Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi, Foreign Ministry's Director-General for the Economic and Specialized International Affairs Hamid Ba'eedinejad, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Ministry Davoud Mohammadnia, and Mohammad Amiri from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

Iran and the world powers held a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York in September and decided to meet again in Geneva on October 15-16.

Iran and the G5+1 have had several rounds of talks in the last few years. Before the New York meeting, representatives of the seven countries had two days of intensive negotiations in Almaty on April 5 and 6, but without making any major breakthrough.

Prior to the Almaty II talks, Iran and the six powers had met in Almaty on February 26-27.

Also, between the two rounds of Almaty talks, experts from Iran and the G5+1 reviewed the two sides' proposals in a meeting in Istanbul from March 17 to 18. The two sides' experts also outlined the topics of the talks between the chief negotiators of Iran and the G5+1 for the Almaty II meeting.

Prior to Almaty, Iran and the G5+1 had held three rounds of talks in Geneva, two rounds in Istanbul, one round in Baghdad and one round in Moscow in June 2012.

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