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Iran, P5+1 hold plenary nuclear talks in Vienna

Friday, 15 May 2015 3:52 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 15 May 2015 5:42 PM ]

EU political director Helga Schmid (C-L) is seen next to Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi (R) at the opening of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1, in Montreux, Switzerland, March 5, 2015. (© AFP)

Representatives from Iran and the P5+1 group have held a plenary session on Iran’s nuclear program in the Austrian city of Vienna.

The plenary session started on Friday, when deputy foreign ministers from Iran, the P5+1 and the European Union’s deputy foreign policy chief, who coordinates on behalf the six world powers, discussed a draft deal on Iran’s nuclear program.

The session finalizes four days of the most recent nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1. The next round of the talks between the two sides will reportedly be held next week on Wednesday.

Earlier on Friday, Iranian representatives held bilateral talks with their counterparts from China, Russia, and the European countries of France, Germany, and Britain as well as EU deputy foreign policy chief Helga Schmidt.

Negotiators from Iran and the P5+1 started their latest round of talks in Vienna on May 12.

The two sides held their previous round of negotiations in New York from April 27 to May 5. During the New York talks, the two sides first began working on the draft of a potential comprehensive agreement.

During the last two rounds of the talks - in Vienna and New York, the two sides worked on the text of the potential deal in order to narrow differences and prepare a cleaner text.

Iran and the P5+1 countries - the US, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia – have been negotiating to reach a comprehensive agreement over Iran’s civilian nuclear activities, and have set June 30 as the deadline for the conclusion of the deal.

The possible deal would see the removal of the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic in return for enhanced transparency by Iran in its nuclear program.

The sides reached mutual understanding on the parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - as the potential deal is called - in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.

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