Iran, G5+1 talks to be resumed in coming days, says Zarif
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Tue 24 Dec 2013 - 09:08
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that the country and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany will hold experts negotiations in coming days.
'In a phone call with Mrs. Ashton we discussed the most important issues and we agreed to resume experts talks earlier next week,' Zarif said.
Iran and the six world powers had their fourth day of expert-level talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday in a bid to devise mechanisms to implement the interim nuclear deal struck last month.
Officials from Iran and the Group 5+1 started their fifth round of talks in the Swiss city few hours ago after four rather lengthy meetings on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The fourth round of talks which started on Saturday afternoon lasted until 3:00 local time on Sunday morning.
Hamid Baeidinejad, the director general for political and international affairs at Iran's Foreign Ministry, leads the Iranian delegation, which includes experts from nuclear, banking, oil and transportation sectors.
Stephen Clement, who is an aide to the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, heads the opposite negotiating team.
Iran and the six world powers resumed their talks in Geneva on Thursday evening and had two more sessions on Friday and one on Saturday.
Iran and the six world powers had an expert meeting in Vienna, Austria, on December 9.
The negotiations were scheduled to continue until December 13, but the Iranian negotiators cut short the talks and returned to Iran in protest at the US breach of the Geneva agreement by blacklisting a dozen companies and individuals for evading Washington's sanctions.
US Secretary of State John Kerry tried to soothe Tehran's anger over Washington's fresh sanctions in a phone call to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday night.
On November 24, Iran and the Group 5+1 sealed the six-month Joint Plan of Action to lay the groundwork for the full resolution of the West's decade-old dispute with Iran over its nuclear energy program.
In exchange for Tehran's confidence-building bid to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities, the Sextet of world powers agreed to lift some of the existing sanctions against Tehran and continue talks with the country to settle all problems between the two sides.
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