"The 5+1 raised its proposals in a more logical way than before," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast told reporters during a weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, adding that the latest talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) were reigned by a different atmosphere.
"To reach a final understanding other measures might be needed, but the new orientation of the 5+1 led the atmosphere towards a direction which made the proposals assessable," added the spokesman.
Mehman-Parast described the Almaty talks as a first step, and said the two sides still need to raise their viewpoints in the experts meeting due to be held later in March in Istanbul, Turkey, to work out an agreement.
He said if the talks continue to move on a logical platform and the opposite side attempts to bring the world powers' approach close to Iran's proposals, an agreement will be achieved.
"Such a new approach contains reduction of sanctions and giving up the attitudes which have been shown to the Iranian nation in an incorrect manner," the spokesman underlined.
Iran and six world powers last week agreed on further meetings after two days of talks in Kazakhstan, the first since negotiations broke down in June, 2012.
Following the meeting, both the chief negotiators of Iran and the G5+1 described their talks as a "turning point". While both Iran's lead negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton - who leads the delegations of the world powers in talks with Iran - said they now have a positive outlook about future talks, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the Austrian TV that a deal is possible now.
Salehi also on Sunday said that Tehran is now waiting to see gradual removal of the western sanctions.
During the talks Iran and the world powers agreed to hold an experts meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 17-18 and then continue their talks at the level of their top negotiators in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 5-6.
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Senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials said the latest proposals offered by the six world powers to Iran during the recent talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, were more logical than their previous offers.
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