Kerry to meet French, German counterparts
US Secretary of State John Kerry is slated to hold talks with his French and German counterparts on Saturday amid ongoing nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran, US officials have said.
Senior negotiators from Iran and the United States kicked off another day of their latest round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear energy program in the Swiss city of Lausanne earlier on Saturday.
Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht-e Ravanchi, Iranian foreign minister deputies, met with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman.
The three later joined Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Kerry for talks to find solutions to outstanding issues ahead of a deadline for a comprehensive agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Kerry will meet separately with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius which will be followed by “a working lunch” with Fabius and German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a State Department official said.
“We expect the other P5+1 ministers to arrive this weekend as their schedules allow," the official said, referring to the group on top of the talk.
According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected to arrive in Lausanne on Sunday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond would arrive in the lakeside town sometime over the weekend.
As a deadline slated for July 1 draws closer, the Iranian foreign minister reaffirmed on Friday the Islamic Republic’s determination to reach a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 countries and called on the other parties to show political will.
“I feel that we can definitely find solutions, but reaching a settlement requires political will from the other side,” Zarif said.
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