Progress of Vienna talks heading in right direction: Khatibzadeh
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
Mon / 24 January 2022 / 14:04
Tehran (ISNA) - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh announced that Tehran had offered executive, operational and realistic ideas during Vienna talks which have made it possible to have a dialogue in the field of guarantees.
Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Khatibzadeh stressed that the progress of Vienna talks is heading in the right direction.
"The great success is that many of Iran's ideas including in the field of guarantees have become words," he said.
Regarding some media reports that the US set some preconditions for reaching an agreement in Vienna, Khatibzadeh emphasized that Iran has not accepted any preconditions since the first day.
"We have expressed our concerns regarding the situation of Iranian prisoners in the US both directly and indirectly aw sell as before the Vienna talks and during these negotiations. Once again we emphasized that these two issues are separate, but if the US abides by the agreements that it made before, this humanitarian issue is solvable in the shortest time," he added.
"The US has taken Iranian citizens hostage over the false accusation of circumventing US sanctions and some of these Iranian citizens are being held in inhumane conditions whereas the US citizens held in Iran have committed crimes and have been sentenced by lawful courts," khatibzadeh went on to say.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Khatibzadeh stated, Foreign Minister of Togo has traveled to Iran and it is anticipated that Iranian foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian would travel to Africa in near future.
Khatibzadeh also announced that the exact day of fifth round of negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia has not been determined.
"The region will be the first beneficiary of normalizing relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia," he added.
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