Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets US Secretary of State John Kerry in Lausanne on March 16, 2015.[/caption]Iran and the United States have wrapped up the first round of the sensitive talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne in an attempt to narrow gaps on the outstanding issues pertaining to Tehrans nuclear program.
Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State John Kerryheld discussions for five hours in Lausanne on Monday.
The meeting was also attended by head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, Zarifs deputies, Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht-e Ravanchi, special assistant to Iran's president, Hossein Fereidoun, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman.
The new round of talks opened in the Swiss city on Sunday as Salehi and Moniz held high-level technical talks. Experts from Iran and the US as well asthe AEOI spokesman, Behrouz Kamalvandi, were also present in the meeting.
Zarif is scheduled toleave for Brussels, Belgium, later on Monday, to discuss Irans nuclear issue with his German, French and UK counterparts, respectively, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Laurent Fabius and Philip Hammond.
EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, will host the Brussels talks as part of the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, her office said in a statement last week.
Iran and the P5+1 countries Britain, France, China, the United States and Russia plus Germany are seeking to seal a comprehensive nuclear deal by July 1. The two sides have already missed two self-imposed deadlines for inking a final agreement since they signed an interim one in the Swiss city of Geneva in November 2013.
On March 4, Zarif and Kerry wrapped up intense nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Montreux. Salehi and Moniz also attended the talks.
Representatives of Iran and the United States had also held three rounds of intense negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva on February 22-23.
By Press TV
