Negotiations will continue to Wednesday and will focus on reaching on a final agreement. Mohammad Javad Zarif and his negotiating team will leave for Vienna today evening. Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, will receive Zarif in a dinner feast the same evening in Vienna.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi will lead the Iranian side in deputy-level negotiations. Helga Schmid, Ashton’s aid, will lead the Powers.
This is the second such negotiations held in Vienna. Iran had stipulated that all UN and unilateral sanctions by the US should be removed in the last step, and Iran’s dossier brought to the UN Security Council as a normal dossier. In return, Iran would commit to address the international concerns over its nuclear program.
Asked about Iran and Powers nuclear talks to be held in Vienna on Tuesday, Zarif told that it was natural to have a ‘tough,’ ‘detailed,’ and ‘exact’ negotiations. “We do not expect to hammer out a final agreement in this round, and would not see any necessity for the foreign ministers of Powers to attend,” he said, and that “we agreed in some points, being among them enrichment and Arak heavy water complex; we also will discuss Powers commitments according to NPT, and removal of sanctions.”
Zarif also said that “as in previous rounds, Mrs. Ashton and I will preside over the negotiations. But the main negotiators will be political deputies of Powers and my own deputy.”
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