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Zarif to hold talks with P5+1 members in German city

Friday, 06 February 2015 6:49 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 06 February 2015 6:48 AM ]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he will hold detailed one-on-one talks with representatives from the P5+1 member states over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program in the German city of Munich.

Zarif told reporters on Thursday night that he will start the bilateral meetings with the P5+1 members (Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany) on Friday afternoon after he arrives in Munich to attend a security conference.

The top Iranian diplomat said that he will sit down with his Western counterparts from the P5+1, explaining that, since Beijing is not attending the Munich summit at the ministerial level, he will not be meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Zarif added that Russia is as of yet undecided about its level of participation at the summit, and thus, a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is still not certain.

Zarif said that he would also meet with other participants that are attending the Munich Security Conference and that have requested a meeting.

Some 60 foreign and defense ministers will attend the 51st Munich Security Conference, which will start on Friday.

Iran and the P5+1 group have been holding talks to clinch a final comprehensive deal over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program.

Since an interim deal was sealed in the Swiss city of Geneva in November 2013, the negotiating sides have missed two self-imposed deadlines to ink a final agreement.

Iran and the P5+1 countries now seek to reach a high-level political agreement by March 1 and to confirm the full technical details of the accord by July 1.

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