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Iranian Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht[/caption]TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht underlined the country's seriousness in nuclear talks with the world powers, and said Iran's negotiating team is doing its best to reach a comprehensive deal with the world powers by end of March.
"We are trying to attain a detailed and comprehensive agreement with the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) by April 1," Nobakht told reporters on Wednesday.
The Iranian and American teams of negotiators started several days of talks in Geneva on Friday. Then after two days of negotiations, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and President Rouhani's brother and senior aide Hossein Fereidoun as well as US Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz joined their deputies in the talks.
After two days of intensive negotiations with his US counterpart, Zarif said that Tehran and Washington have had "serious, useful and constructive" talks in the last few days, but there is still a long way ahead before a final nuclear deal can be struck.
Speaking to reporters on Monday and after two days of talks with his US counterpart, Zarif said, "We have made progress on some topics to some extent, but there is still a long way to pave before reaching a final deal."
He noted that Iran and the G5+1 had "serious, useful and constructive" talks, specially with the US whose secretaries of state and energy also took part in the negotiations.
The Iranian foreign minister reiterated that there will be no agreement unless both sides agree on all issues.
On Monday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi cautioned that Tehran will leave the negotiating table with the world powers if the other side adopts a bullying approach in the negotiations.
"We will continue the negotiations as long as there is a language of respect, but we will surely leave the table if this (bullying) approach is extended to the negotiating table," Araqchi, also a senior negotiator in talks with the world powers, said.
Araqchi's remarks came after Kerry said that Washington would leave the talks, if Tehran did not take a "productive" decision to prove the "peaceful" nature of its nuclear program.
"Kerry's statements about the nuclear talks were repetition of (US President Barack) Obama's last week statements and these remarks have always been repeated and we believe that they do not influence the negotiations," the Iranian deputy foreign minister added.
He reiterated that the Iran-G5+1 talks should be based on the two sides' interests and proceed with a win-win solution, and said, "Both the US and other G5+1 members have experienced that political and media pressures will never make the Islamic Republic of Iran change its methods, demands and stances in the negotiations.
Araqchi reiterated that Iran will continue negotiations with the G5+1 as long as there is mutual respect, but it will otherwise leave the negotiating table.
He pointed to the third day of negotiations in Geneva on Sunday, and said, "Summing up the discussions, we cannot claim that progress has been made in the talks, we still have differences, but the negotiating sides are seriously and resolutely following up the negotiations to reach a solution although they have not achieved comprehensive solutions over key issues."
On Saturday, Kerry said that US President Barack Obama is fully prepared to stop these talks if he feels that theyre not being met with the kind of productive decision-making necessary to prove that a program is in fact peaceful.
His remarks came after Zarif underlined the country's determination to clinch a fair deal with the six major world powers, but meantime, said Tehran would not accept the West's excessive demands in the nuclear talks.
By Fars News Agency
