Iran Nuclear Talks to Go On in Vienna Next Week
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Senior negotiators from Iran and the European Union will on Tuesday wrap up six days of talks in New York on drafting the text of a final nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, while the parties will resume negotiations in Austria after a one-week hiatus.
Ranking diplomats from Iran and the EU launched the new round of nuclear talks in New York on April 30, on the sidelines of the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Iranian negotiators Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht Ravanchi have held several long meetings with the EU deputy secretary general for the external action service, Helga Maria Schmid, over the past days.
The final session of diplomatic meetings will be held on Tuesday evening, but experts from the two sides will still stay in New York until May 7 to work on the appendices of a final agreement.
The next round of high-profile meetings will resume in Austria’s Vienna on May 12.
In a Monday tweet, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the process of drafting is “moving forward” as the two sides are “determined to end this manufactured crisis and open new horizons.”
The top Iranian diplomat, however, stressed that “many brackets” still remain which need to be addressed by hard work.
Also in comments on Monday, Abbas Araqchi said the drafting process was going on slowly and continuously.
There are still differences on some issues like the “literature” on the text and many more thing fall into parentheses and brackets, he added.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in talks to hammer out a lasting accord that would end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran's peaceful nuclear program.
On April 2, the two sides reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final deal until the end of June.
