Iran's Foreign Ministry & EU Foreign Policy Council Hold Meeting in Tehran

Along with Zarif, Iran's former Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh and several members of the EU Foreign Policy Council, including the former Italian foreign minister, were present in the talks.

Addressing the meeting, a member of the EU Foreign Policy Council referred to the issues discussed in the previous round of talks between the two sides, and said new events and developments have happened in the world since then, including Ukraine.

The official underlined that Iran's nuclear talks was one of the most important pivots of discussions between the two sides in the two previous rounds, and expressed the hope that the two sides could find good solutions to the problem in the upcoming round of high-profile multifaceted talks.

The 7th round of talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) was held in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting last month.

The two sides had also had six rounds of negotiations in Vienna to reach a comprehensive deal after they inked an interim agreement in Geneva on November 24.

The Geneva agreement took effect on January 20 and expired six months later on July 20. In July, Tehran and the six countries agreed to extend negotiations till November 24 after they failed to reach an agreement on a number of key issues.

Last week, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi described the trend of the nuclear talks between Tehran and the G5+1 as positive, but meantime stressed that differences still remain in place.

Source: Farsnews