The upcoming meeting between senior Iranian and EU officials will be held in Istanbul.
"The objective for the meeting ... is to look further at how existing gaps in positions could be narrowed and how the process could be moved forward," Reuters quoted a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton as saying on Monday.
Ashton's spokesman also said the talks would continue after the July 24 meeting between Deputy Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Baqeri and Helga Schmid, a senior member of Ashton's team.
The spokesman added that SNSC Secretary Saeed Jalili and Ashton would be in contact in the future.
The last expert-level meeting between Iran and the P5+1 representatives was held on July 3 in Istanbul.
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The next round of the expert-level talks between Iran and the six major world powers of 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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