Upon his return from Iran to France on Tuesday, the Austrian deputy foreign minister told the Vienna-based Standard newspaper that he had constructive talks with the senior Iranian officials, and said, “I am hopeful about the effectiveness of Iran-Group 5+1 talks.”
The Austrian deputy foreign minister underlined that Iran and the Group 5+1 can hold their upcoming meeting in Vienna.
On Monday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said that Iran's upcoming meeting with the six major world powers in Geneva will focus on the details of the steps agreed to be taken by both sides.
“We have a tough road ahead. In Geneva, we will get into the details of the steps and we hope to bring closer the views of both sides, which are (currently) far apart,” Araqchi underlined.
The last meeting of the seven countries was in Geneva and lasted for two days on October 15 and 16. Both Tehran and the delegations of the G 5+1 voiced satisfaction in the outcomes of the Geneva meeting and decided to send their experts to two days of talks in Vienna on October 30 and 31 to discuss details of Iran's new proposal for soothing the crisis.
Iran and the six world powers agreed in their third session of talks on October 15 to follow up on the nuclear negotiations on November 7 and 8.
At the end of the negotiations, EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton hailed the nuclear negotiations as the “most detailed” and most “substantive” ones ever held between the two sides.
