Lausanne, March 29, IRNA -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerry met again in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday night in yet another attempt to finalize a long-awaited deal on Iran’s nuclear program.

This is the sixth meeting between the U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers ever since Lausanne-2 negotiations started Thursday.


The meeting is taking place after Kerry held bilateral and trilateral meetings with foreign ministers of Iran, France and Germany.

Earlier on Friday, Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a phone call agreed on a possible meeting of foreign ministers Sunday.

Kerry and Lavrov discussed the 'work on a universal agreement on resolving the situation around the Iranian nuclear program' and noted the 'closeness of the positions of Russia and the United States on many aspects of this process,' the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier Friday that there was a possibility that Lavrov would attend the talks but a decision had not yet been taken.

Considering Kerry’s consultations with the EU foreign ministers, this latest round of Kerry-Zarif meeting sounds to be very crucial.

By IRNA