Iran's foreign minister said Thursday he would like to see talks with world powers on his country's nuclear program resume in Turkey, but was waiting for a venue and date to be agreed.
Iran's foreign minister said Thursday he would like to see talks with
world powers on his country's nuclear program resume in Turkey, but was waiting
for a venue and date to be agreed.
"Personally I think that
Turkey
is
the best place for the talks to take place. But it should be at a place of
mutual agreement," Ali Akbar Salehi said in a televised joint news
conference with visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Salehi said he had asked European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton,
who was representing the world powers, to propose a time and place for the
talks, when the two met briefly recently in the German city of
Bonn
.
Ashton's office, however, has said it was still waiting for
Iran
to
formally respond to an October 2011 letter Ashton sent offering to resume the
talks, which were suspended a year ago.
Salehi brushed aside that demand, saying
Iran
's top
nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, "has said in the past couple of months
that
Iran
is
ready to resume talks."
He added that Ashton had asked Davutoglu if
Turkey
could
host the next meeting between
Iran
and
the so-called 5+1 Group--comprising UN permanent Security Council members
Britain
,
China
,
France,
Russia
and
the
United States
, plus
non-permanent member
Germany
--and
that Davutoglu had agreed.
Iran
's
position, Salehi said, "is a state of readiness to resume talks."
Davutoglu said in the news conference that he had conveyed Ashton's request for
a formal response from
Iran
.
"We want to see both sides go back to the negotiating table," he
said.
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