TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and senior negotiator in talks with major world powers Seyed Abbas Araqchi underlined that Tehran will not accept any agreement which ignores its right to enrich uranium.
"No agreement will be accepted in which enrichment doesn't exist from the very beginning to the end," Araqchi wrote on his Tweeter page on Thursday.
He also announced that "serious negotiations on contents" will start at 9:00 (Geneva time) on Thursday between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany), which was delayed of course due to a meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
In relevant remarks on Wednesday, Araqchi said that the talks between Iran and the six world powers Wednesday night will make it clear if the two sides were ready to start negotiations on the text of a final Deal on Thursday.
"We will talk about the trend of negotiations tonight and if we achieve good results, the negotiations about the text (of the final agreement) will likely start tomorrow," Araqchi told FNA in Geneva on Wednesday.
He underlined that Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) have not focused on the terms of the agreement yet. "The lost trust should be revived" first, Araqchi stressed.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (who presides over the delegations of the six world powers in the talks with Iran) in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments before the start of the high-profile Iran-G5+1 talks.
Ashton chaired a meeting of the E3/EU+3 Political Directors ahead of her bilateral meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister.
On November 7-9, Iran and the major world powers held three days of intense discussions in the Swiss city of Geneva. The two sides did not reach an agreement but stressed that significant progress had been made and expressed optimism about the prospects of a possible deal in the future.
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