EU foreign ministers are to formally end negotiations with Tehran over Iran’s nuclear ambitions at talks in Luxembourg on Tuesday because of a “lack of results”, a European diplomat said on Friday. | “The ministers are due to declare that “negotiations with Iran have terminated because of a lack of results”, the diplomat said on condition of anonymity. However, a draft of the meeting’s conclusions does not include that sentence.” |
Other diplomats said that the most recent version was not as strongly worded and left the door open to further negotiations. At the meeting in Luxembourg, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is due to give an account of talks with Iran, which the major world powers have asked to end its uranium enrichment activities. Solana acknowledged last week that talks had ground to a halt, sparking discussions about possible sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council. He also said that he planned no further meetings with IranÂ’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.