Publish date24 Oct 2014 - 9:13
Story Code : 172089

Expert-level nuclear talks useful: Iran official

Head of Iran’s delegation at expert-level nuclear talks in Vienna says representatives of the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group conducted two days of useful, explicit negotiations.
Expert-level nuclear talks useful: Iran official


Hamid Ba’eedinejad, who also serves as the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s director general for political and international affairs, said the two sides held intensive talks in the Austrian capital to find final solutions to some topics of discussion.

The P5+1 expert-level delegation was headed by Stephen Clement, an aide to the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton.

The Iranian diplomat noted that the expert-level delegations will report on their talks to senior nuclear negotiators of Iran and the six countries – the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany.

On Wednesday, two rounds of expert-level negotiations were held on the level of uranium enrichment by Iran, the mechanism for removing sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, the length of a final deal over Iran’s nuclear energy program and various ideas put forth during political negotiations.

The talks on Thursday were held to delve into the two side’s differences with the aim of achieving a common understanding between Tehran and the P5+1 group to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive deal.

Sources close to the Iranian negotiating team say the main stumbling block in the way of resolving the Western dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy program remains to be the removal of all the bans slapped on the Islamic Republic and not the number of centrifuges or the level of uranium enrichment.

Tehran wants the sanctions entirely lifted while Washington, under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby, insists that at least the UN-imposed sanctions should remain in place.

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