Iran's Foreign Ministry has expressed the country’s full readiness to hold talks with the six major powers of the P5+1 group, reiterating the need for all the parties involved to adopt a constructive and positive approach.
Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- Russia, China, Britain, France and the US -- in addition to Germany will hold negotiations on a spectrum of topics, including ways to improve [Iran’s] interactions with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters at his weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
He added that the talks are currently underway with a high-ranking IAEA delegation that arrived in Tehran early Monday at Iran's invitation to set the framework for future bilateral cooperation.
We should wait to see the outcome of the visit by the IAEA delegation and its impact on Iran's talks with the P5+1 representatives, the Iranian spokesman said.
He noted that the time and venue of the talks will be determined based on a consensus between the two sides.
Iran and the P5+1 held two rounds of multifaceted talks in Geneva in December 2010 and in the Turkish city of Istanbul in January 2011.
While Tehran says it is ready to continue the talks based on common grounds, it has stressed that it will not give up any of its rights.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used this pretext to impose international and unilateral sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Iran, however, maintains that, as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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