Zarif, Ashton to meet in Istanbul

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News ID: 4257
Publish Date: 12:30 - 26 May 2014
Tehran, YJC. Iranian diplomats say that on Monday the Iranian FM to visit the EUHR Ashton in Istanbul.

Following earlier speculations that Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union would meet in Istanbul, Al-Monitor reported that the two diplomats will attend the event on Monday or Tuesday, Tasnim news agency reports.

The meeting will follow the last round of nuclear talks between Iran and the Six Majors which gone without any progress.

On Monday morning Mohammad Javad Zarif left Tehran for Turkey heading a high-ranking delegation.

He is to leave Istanbul for Algiers to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministerial meeting.

Iran and the Six Majors are going to meet again to discuss the country’s nuclear case on June 16.

Following the last unfruitful Vienna talks, Iran and the Western negotiators invited each other to attend the next round of negotiations with more realistic outlooks.

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