Iran Nuclear Talks Towards Critical Weekend

Fri Mar 27, 2015 18:42:13

Marathon of Iran nuclear talks headed Friday towards a critical weekend as Britain said its foreign minister would join his US, Iranian and French counterparts in racing the clock to pin down a deal.

President Rouhani, in his pursuit of more consultations on nuclear issue and regional problems, called Prime Minister of Britain and Presidents of Russia, France, and China on Thursday evening.

"We are acting in the national and international interest and we should not lose this exceptional opportunity," Rouhani told British Prime Minister David Cameron, the presidency said.

"The negotiations are difficult. They've been difficult since the beginning and they still are," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told AFP on Friday after meeting in Switzerland with top US diplomat John Kerry for about 90 minutes.

"deputy Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araqchi said here on Friday that it is too soon to predict the outcome of the nuclear negotiations."

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s determination to reach a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 countries, calling on the opposite parties to show political will.

“I feel that we can definitely find solutions but reaching a solution requires political will from the opposite side,” Zarif said on Friday.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said all diplomats talk about Yemen these days but Iran–US negotiations are confined to nuclear issues.

Zarif was talking to reporters who asked him if he had talked about Yemen with Secretary Kerry. Zarif and Kerry started a new round of talks on Friday morning. He talked to reporters after the meeting's adjournment.

To a question whether the negotiations end on Sunday or will be extended until Tuesday, Zarif said they could finish or extend.

To another question about the atmosphere of the talks, the minister said the negotiations have always been difficult.

On Yemen, Zarif said it is a tragedy that people are being killed in a war which has no use for anyone.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to a member of his staff during a walks after a negotiation session on the Iranian nuclear programm in Lausanne on March 27, 2015. Marathon Iran nuclear talks headed towards a critical weekend as Britain said its foreign minister would join his US, Iranian and French counterparts in racing the clock to agree the contours of a deal. AFP PHOTO

Meanwhile German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier may head to Lausanne over the weekend to join the Iran nuclear talks, according to a German official.

Also Deputy foreign ministers from Iran and China started their nuclear talks here on Friday. The negotiations between Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi and their Chinese counterpart Yong Yie launched at 12:00 local time in Lausanne.

The two sides hold talks following the 90-minute negotiations between Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry adjourned.

deputy Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araqchi said here on Friday that it is too soon to predict the outcome of the nuclear negotiations.

Iran vice foreign minister says it is “too soon to predict outcome of negotiations.Talking to reporters on Friday morning, Araqchi underlined, 'we cannot predict that the two sides would reach a common understanding at the end of this round of talks.'

He reiterated that the fresh round of Iran and P5+1 negotiations will be continued seriously.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz cross paths during a lunch break in negotiations with Iranian officials on March 27, 2015 in Lausanne.

 

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