“The fourth day of negotiations is hard and breathtaking,” Deputy Foreign Minister and Senior Negotiator in the talks with the world powers Seyed Abbas Araqchi said in Geneva on Saturday.
“The foreign ministers (of the G5+1) have arrived and I hope that they will be ready for taking hard decisions,” he added.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his French, US and German counterparts Laurent Fabius, John Kerry and Guido Westerwelle are now in Geneva waiting for Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to hold a high-profile meeting with Iranian top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif, which many believe will end in a deal over Iran's nuclear program.
The Iranian and G5+1 delegations have gathered in Geneva for the third time in the last few months and been holding intense negotiations since Wednesday to find a way for the settlement of Tehran’s nuclear standoff with the West.
Zarif told reporters after four rounds of talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Geneva on Friday that negotiations have become serious and hopes for striking a deal are still alive.
Also, Westerwelle who arrived in Geneva earlier today announced that Iran and the G5+1 now have a “real chance” for resolving their decade-long nuclear standoff.
“There is a real chance for an agreement, but we have many things to do,” Westerwelle told reporters upon arrival at Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel where the negotiations are underway between Iran and the world powers.