During the 2010 and 2011 talks, the P5+1 (Permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) had “refused to accept Iran's nuclear energy rights or to even negotiate with the country in the context of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)”, Deputy Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Dr. Ali Baqeri said Sunday, Fars news agncy reported.Baqeri said the Islamic Republic made “appropriate and wise” use of the various apparatus at its disposal during the talks with the P5+1 over the past two months to materialize the Iranian nation’s “inalienable right” to nuclear energy.
The most recent round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 was an expert-level meeting in Istanbul on July 3, 2012. The two sides had agreed to the technical talks during their negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow, in June.
The Moscow meetings came after three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in May and an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.
The two sides had, prior to the Istanbul talks, held two rounds of negotiations, one in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2010, and another again in Istanbul in January 2011.
The next round of the expert-level talks between Iran and the P5+1 over Tehran’s nuclear energy program has been scheduled to be held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on July 24.
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