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Tehran Brings 'Breakthrough' Offer to Nuclear Talks
[An Nahar] Iranian and U.S. delegations held "useful" bilateral talks Tuesday evening on the sidelines of high-profile nuclear talks in Geneva, a senior State Department official said, as"As had been expected, Under Secretary (Wendy) Sherman and members of the U.S. delegation held a bilateral meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister (Abbas) Araqchi and members of the Iranian delegation tonight," the U.S. official said. The meeting lasted nearly an hour, the source added. A figure close to Iran's nuclear negotiation team also confirmed the talks, but did not provide details. The rare meeting came after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his U.S. counterpart John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... held a 30-minute face-to-face discussion in New York last month on the sidelines of talks within the framework of the so-called P5+1 group. The last time Iranian and American delegations held bilateral meetings was in October 2009. Iran's two-day Geneva talks with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -chaired P5+1 group -- the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, China and Russia, plus Germany -- ends a six-month freeze sparked by its refusal to curb uranium enrichment in exchange for the easing of punishing international sanctions. Tehran said it had presented a potentially "breakthrough" proposal to end a decade-long standoff with world powers on Tuesday, noting that the offer Despite the upbeat tone, Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi as saying that snap inspections of the Islamic republic's nuclear facilities were not part of the new proposal. "It does not exist in the offer," Araqchi told IRNA. Iran has drawn other red lines, saying it will not accept any demand to suspend uranium enrichment or ship out stockpiles of purified material. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-16 |
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