Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will have a pre-planned meeting with the US Secretary of State John Kerry, a source in the Russian delegation said on Saturday.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton discussed on Friday evening in Geneva ways to achieve a mutually acceptable agreement between the Sextet and Iran, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi headed to Geneva Saturday to join US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats for talks on Iran's nuclear programme, the government said.
Tehran, YJC. Iranian negotiator says Iran cannot enter more serious discussions on its nuclear program unless assured of unanimous talk by the Western side.
Complicating the situation and heightening the drama was the French decision to go public with their reservations, a move sharply at variance with the discipline other governments have showed in keeping the talks confidential, Robert Einhorn Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative in Brooking says in an article.
Tehran, YJC. Diplomat says Iran is going to attend the Geneva III talks with goodwill, hoping that what was said on the previous round of talks will not be repeated.
Syria’s opposition-in-exile agreed Monday to attend planned peace talks in Geneva but said President Bashar Assad could play no part in a transitional government aimed at ending the country’s civil war.
Arab League (AL) foreign ministers meeting here Sunday called on Syrian opposition to attend the Geneva II conference and form their delegation as soon as possible.
Nineteen Islamist groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad have rejected outright a mooted US-Russian peace initiative for Syria dubbed Geneva 2, a statement said.
Tehran, YJC. Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization says that the current Iranian negotiation team enjoys certain privileges to take the negotiations somewhere.
Tehran, YJC. Zarif says that although negotiation to reach agreement is harder than mere statement of interests, his negotiation team is going to come out with some tangible result from the upcoming nuclear talks.
Tehran, YJC. Top nuclear negotiator says Iran is going to discuss the level of uranium enrichment and not its suspension in the upcoming negotiation with the Six Majors.