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Friday 8 November 2013 - 09:54
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US Diplomat: We are ready for easing anti-Iranian sanctions

Vienna, Nov 8, IRNA Biggest and most important Swiss daily Basler Zeitung quoted an American diplomat in Geneva in its Wednesday edition as saying that Washington is ready for easing the anti-Iranian sanctions.
Basler Zeitung has quoted the US diplomat as emphasizing that his country is ready for easing sanctions on condition that Iran would as a first step be ready for decreasing the level of its nuclear activities.

The Swiss daily has reiterated that the US diplomat did not clarify what he exactly meant by decreasing the level of its nuclear activities.

The daily meanwhile wrote that Iran is ready for halting its 20% uranium enrichment on condition that the West would lift the initial phase of sanctions.

Basler Zeitung has also referred to Israels strong opposition against this proposal and quoted a Zionist official as saying, This is a very bad deal indeed!

Experts of Iran and three European countries (Britain, France and Germany) held expert meeting in Geneva on Thursday afternoon to exchange views on how to move ahead to resolve the nuclear dispute.

According to IRNA reporters from Geneva, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton decided in the morning that the Iranian representatives would hold an experts meeting with the EU representatives in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, representatives of the United States, Russia and China held separate expert meetings with Iranian negotiators to take the first step for the settlement of the issue and draw up the final step the two parties would take to end the stalemate.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif did not attend the experts meeting and his deputy for legal and international affairs Abbas Araqchi is heading Iranian team to the expert meeting.

A top Iranian nuclear negotiator, too, said Thursday night that drafting of the text of nuclear compromise between Iran and six world powers will begin as of tomorrow, Friday.

We are getting ready for beginning drafting the text of a compromise, and we hope talks on it would start as of tomorrow, but their duration is unknown, Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi said in a press conference, according to an IRNA dispatched reporter to Geneva.

By IRNA

 

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