Russia's FM Joins Iran Nuclear Talks in Vienna
VIENNA (Tasnim) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Austria on Tuesday and met his Iranian counterpart for talks over a lasting deal on Tehran's nuclear energy program.
Lavrov and Mohammad Javad Zarif, head of the Iranian team of nuclear negotiators, held a meeting at Vienna's Palais Coburg hotel on Tuesday evening, only hours before an end-June deadline for a comprehensive nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers.
Earlier in the day, Zarif had a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry. He is also going to met with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano.
Ranking diplomats and negotiators from Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in Vienna to nail down the details of a lasting accord.
On April 2, Iran and the six nations reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, that provides outlines of the final agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Although June 30 has been set as deadline, reports suggest that the parties will remain in Vienna for some more days to clinch the long-awaited accord that would end more than a decade of standoff on Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
