According to Mehr News correspondents in Vienna, the head of Iran’s delegation Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had two separate meetings with his French Counterpart and Russian FM’s representative in Vienna in the afternoon.
Earlier Sergey Lavrov was accorded to meet with Zarif in the afternoon, but after it was announced that Lavrov could not make it, Russia’s permanent representative to UN office in Vienna joined Zarif to make up for the agenda.
In the morning, Zarif shared the table with US Secretary of State John Kerry and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.
After the arrival of Britain’s Philip Hammond, all ministers are present but the Chinese and Russian ones, leading to the cancellation of 5+1 minister’s meeting arranged for late evening on Saturday.
Iran’s Ali Akbar Salehi and American Ernest Moniz also held a 4-hour long meeting on Saturday in the evening.
This round of negotiations in Vienna, which has capped two years of international talks, is seen as the last push to resolve the West’s 13-year nuclear standoff with Iran.
The talks between Iran and 5+1 over Iran’s wholly civilian nuclear program could stretch into the weekend although all sides had originally hoped to come up with a comprehensive deal by June 30.