Iran has expressed hope that its chief nuclear negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief would hold constructive talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, SIA reports citing Mehr News.
"We hope that the response that Ms. Ashton will provide at a bilateral meeting with Mr. Jalili tomorrow will be constructive, and we are waiting to hear her response," Iran’s new Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abbas Araghchi, said at his first press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday.
He was referring to the meeting that the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, is scheduled to hold with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Istanbul today to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, which the West suspects may be aimed at developing nuclear weapons capability but Iran insists is purely for peaceful purposes.
Ashton leads diplomatic efforts to resolve the decade-old nuclear dispute on behalf of the six major powers, namely the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France, and Germany, which are known as the P5+1 group.
The most recent round of high-level talks between Iran and the P5+1 group, which failed to produce a breakthrough, was held in the Kazakh city of Almaty on April 5 and 6.
They held similar negotiations in the same city on February 26 and 27.
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