Iran, US foreign ministers continue nuclear talks in Munich
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry have held a fresh round of talks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Zarif and Kerry, who were heading delegations from their respective countries, held a two-hour discussion over the latest developments about the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group on the sidelines of a security conference in the southern German city of Munich on Sunday.
This is the second time in a week Zarif and Kerry meet in Munich.
On Friday, the two officials held a two-hour meeting aimed at narrowing differences on a deal over Iran’s nuclear program.
A senior US official said after the Friday meeting between Zarif and Kerry that the US secretary of state “reiterated our desire to move toward a political framework by the end of March.”
The Iranian foreign minister also held talks with EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
During the meeting, Mogherini said that the P5+1 group has a strong political will to reach a deal with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Zarif further held separate talks with his German, British and Russian counterparts in Munich on Saturday a day after he sat down with Kerry.
Following the meetings, Zarif said in an interview with the Iranian state television that a deal cannot be reached unless the P5+1 group takes “a political action and decision.”
Back in January, Zarif and Kerry held intense negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva to help speed up the ongoing talks between Iran and the P5+1 group - the US, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany - over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear work.
Since an interim deal was agreed in Geneva in November 2013, the negotiating sides have missed two self-imposed deadlines to ink a final agreement.
Iran and the P5+1 countries now seek to reach a high-level political agreement by April 1 and to confirm the full technical details of the accord by July 1.
The scale of Iran’s uranium enrichment and the timetable for the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions are seen as major sticking points in the talks.
Iran has so far suspended some of its nuclear enrichment program in return for certain sanctions relief.
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