19/12/2013 09:18
Expert-level talks on Iranian nuclear issue to begin in Geneva on Thursday
Expert-level talks between Iran and the Sextet of international mediators (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) will be held on Thursday in Geneva, a source at the Russian permanent mission at the United Nations and other Geneva-based international organizations said, according to the Voice of Russia.
It is planed that the round of technical consultations will take two days, although Fars, citing Iranian officials, did not rule out that it might extend into the weekend.
The talks are geared to work out a detailed plan to implement the political agreements reached in Geneva at the ministerial level in late November.
Nothing was said about the subjects to be discussed at these consultations. But it looks symbolic that the venue for this round of talks was chosen in Geneva, not Vienna, a home to the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The previous technical consultations that had been held in the Austrian capital on December 9 through 12 were stopped after the Iranian delegation quitted the negotiations to have consultations at home, in Teheran.