New Round Of Iran-G5+1 Ministerial Meet Ends

New York, Sept 28 IRNA -- After several rounds of useless talks between Iran and Group 5+1 during the past years the new event in this process began its new round about an hour ago at ministerial level hosted by New York City and ended some 30 minutes later. The meeting which was held behind closed doors took about 30 minutes and Ms. Ashton in her briefing about it said that there would be another meeting in 19 days. She also said that 12 months would be an appropriate time for resolving the Iranian nuclear issue and evaluate the brief Thursday night New York talks as positive, obviously reacting to the Iranian foreign ministers previous hope for resolving them in 6, and maximum 9 months. Ashton also said that the next round of talks could either be based on the G5+1’s proposals (presented in Almaty), or on the Iranian side’s proposal. According to the IRNA correspondent in New York, minutes ago Mohammad Javad Zarif along with the Iranian team participating in nuclear negotiations met with his counterparts from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany.” After Iran-G5+1 talks in New York, US Secretary of State John Kerry voiced his gratitude over the outcome of the G5+1s meeting with Iran, and said that the Iranian foreign minister put new options on the negotiation table. During the course of the previous years the entire talks between Iran and the G5+1 have been held at diplomatic levels lower than ministerial level and from Iran the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) was the head of the Iranian delegation in the nuclear negotiations. ** Ashton meets Rohani before ministerial talks Some three hours before the foreign ministers of Iran and six world powers meeting in New York, the head of G5+1 and EU foreign policy chief Catharine Ashton met and conferred with both President Hassan Rohani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif./end