29 Mar 2024
Friday 15 September 2017 - 12:09
Story Code : 275797

No Zarif-Tillerson meeting on Irans UN agenda: Qassemi

Press TV- Iran says there are no plans for a meeting between Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his American counterpart on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, after media reports hinted of such a meeting.


Foreign Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi was responding to a question whether a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the agenda of Zarifs upcoming trip to New York, where he will attend the 72nd annual session of the UN General Assembly.

Qassemi emphasized no such meeting has been planned and that he is not aware of such a request from Washington.

Earlier, AFP had quoteddiplomats as saying that Tillerson would hold a first meeting on the Iran nuclear deal with Zarif and other parties to the 2015 agreement, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA.)

Zarif will attend the UN general assembly next week and will hold talks with counterparts from Asian, European and neighboring countries, Qassemi said.

The top diplomat is also slated to hold talks with the European Union foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, and some foreign ministers of the P5+1 group of countries Russia, China, France, Britain, the US, the UK and Germany on issues of bilateral and international significance as well as the JCPOA.

Dignitaries from 193 nations will gather September 19 for a week of speeches and sideline meetings at the annual UN General Assembly in New York.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is also scheduled to give a speech at the UN General Assembly next week.

Tehrans UN Ambassador Gholam-Ali Khoshrou said in an interview on Thursday that Rouhanis speech would focus on the JCPOA, Irans role on the global political and economic stage and the Islamic Republics efforts towards the elimination of terrorism and extremism, among other issues.

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