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Iran and World powers to meet next week to discuss nucler deal.
A fresh round of talks between Iran and world powers will be held next
week to discuss the details of a possible comprehensive nuclear deal,
Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said here on
Wednesday.
It is possible that the deputy-level and expert-level
meetings will be held next Wednesday, she said, adding that however, the
venue has not been decide on yet.
In the next meeting,
representatives from Iran and the world powers will bring with
themselves preliminary drafts to work on, she said, adding that in the
drafts there are numerous blank spaces as well as bracketed words or
phrases which require discussions, Xinhua news agency reported.
Afkham
said that Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif will also attend
a meeting on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York on April
27.
He may have a meeting with the foreign ministers of P5+1
group of major world powers, namely the US, Britain, China, France,
Russia plus Germany, on the sidelines of the NPT conference to discuss
the latest developments on Iran's nuclear issue, she added.
A
delegation of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), which is a UN body to confirm the peaceful nature of Iran's
nuclear activities, arrived in Tehran on Wednesday to hold talks with
Iranian officials on the remaining issues of the nuclear programme.
The
delegation, led by Tero Varjoranta, the IAEA deputy director general
and head of the department of safeguards, will hold one-day technical
negotiations with relevant Iranian officials within the framework of
implementation of the Framework for Cooperation, Press TV reported.
The
negotiations will focus on the two issues of alleged explosives testing
at a site in the western city of Marivan and neutron calculations,
Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of
Iran, said on Tuesday.
Under an interim deal inked between Iran
and the world's major countries in November 2013, Tehran suspended
certain nuclear activities in return for limited easing of sanctions, as
all sides continued working toward a comprehensive deal.
The
latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog said that the IAEA was yet to
receive information from Tehran on two outstanding issues related to the
alleged nuclear bomb research, the so-called "possible military
dimensions", which Iran denies.
The P5+1 group is set to resume
talks with Iran soon over a final deal after reaching a framework pact
early this month, and the US President Barack Obama's administration has
repeatedly opposed any interference in the negotiations.