On Saturday, UK and French foreign policy chiefs left Vienna for consultations. VIENNA, November 23 (Sputnik) UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will return toVienna onSunday tocontinue consultations onIraniannuclear program, a source told RIA Novosti onSunday. UK, French Foreign Ministers will be ...

LAUSANNE:British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said late Sunday he believed a nuclear deal with Iran could be reached, but insisted it must put an atomic bomb "beyond reach." "We are here because we believe a deal can be done," Hammond told reporters waiting in the rain outside a Lausanne hotel as he became the last of the foreign ministers to ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Britain has no plan to engage militarily in the Saudi-led war against Yemen, British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond said. Speaking to reporters in Washington, Hammond said, "We will provide support to the Saudi and PGCC operation in every way we can, but we're clearly not going to get involved in military action itself," Yahoo News ...

No specifics, nothing written, perhaps not even anything that Iran and the international negotiating partners say as onethats the most to expect out of the nuclear talks now running up against the deadline in Switzerland, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Friday. But even concluding this round of talks with that level of ambiguity, Hammond ...

LONDON (AFP)- British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will join the Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland this weekend, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday. Hammond, who is on a visit to the United States, earlier this week said an agreement was "deliverable" but urged Iran to make "tough decisions". A spokesman for French Foreign Minister ...

London (AFP) - Failure to secure a deal with Iran could mean a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, the foreign secretary warned in comments released on Thursday. "I remain clear that no deal is better than a bad deal. But we should also be clear-eyed about the alternative," Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in a speech in London. "No deal means ...

[caption id="attachment_131857" align="alignright" width="217"] British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond[/caption] (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister said on Monday talks to end a 12-year standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions still had some way to go before Western powers reach a deal with Tehran. "We are closer than we were but we've still ...

[caption id="attachment_3033" align="alignright" width="222"] Flags of Britain & Iran[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif may meet his British counterpart Philip Hammond in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday to discuss the reopening of their respective embassies, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Sunday. Disucssions ...

Munich, Feb 7, IRNA -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met separately with his British counterpart Philip Hammond and Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam on the sidelines of the 51st Munich Security Conference in the south German city on Saturday. Zarif and Hammond discussed the latest developments in the Iran nuclear negotiation process ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 26 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Images of continuing protests across the United States against police brutality dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday. Comments by Iranian minister ...

[caption id="attachment_131857" align="alignright" width="202"] British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond[/caption] (Reuters) - Britain and other powers negotiating withIranfor a deal over its nuclear programme, which they suspect is aimed at building a bomb, must not make "unwise concessions" for the sake of convenience, Foreign Secretary Phillip ...

The negotiations with Iran are tough and complex, but a comprehensive agreement would bring enormous benefits to all parties, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Tuesday. LONDON, November 25 (Sputnik) A comprehensivenuclear dealwithIran should not come atany price, butit should clearly state that Tehran would not be able todevelop a nuclear weapons ...

[caption id="attachment_131857" align="alignright" width="175"] British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond[/caption] British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says Iran and the P5+1 group will make a "last push" for a comprehensive agreement on Tehrans nuclear program before a November 24 deadline. "At the moment we're focused on the last push, a big ...

[caption id="attachment_131248" align="alignright" width="243"] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (3rd L), EU envoy Catherine Ashton (6th L), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (3rd R) and Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (front L) sit a a table during talks in Vienna November 21, 2014. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader[/caption] Vienna, Austria ...

[caption id="attachment_131288" align="alignright" width="196"] Britain's foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, says there have been 'positive discussions' in Vienna over Iran's nuclear programme. Photograph: Reuters[/caption] There is still a very significant gap to close in nuclear negotiations betweenIran and the west, the British foreign secretary ...

[caption id="attachment_131284" align="alignright" width="178"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, former EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pose for photographers at nuclear talks in Vienna on Thursday. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES[/caption] VIENNATry though they might to deny it, there ...

[caption id="attachment_131098" align="alignright" width="159"] John Kerry, right, with Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, who has been sceptical over Iran's nuclear intentions. Photograph: Reuters[/caption] US secretary of state dismisses UK counterparts remark that Monday deadline for reaching deal will have to be extended The US secretary ...

(Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday he was not optimistic that world powers andIran would clinch a full nuclear deal by Nov. 24 but that there may be a way of extending the self-imposed deadline. "Im not optimistic that we can get everything done by Monday," Hammond told reporters in the Latvian capital. "But ...

(Reuters) - Britain urgedIranto show more flexibility in nuclear talks due to start on Tuesday while Tehran insisted its rights must be respected, highlighting gaps standing in the way of an historic deal by a Nov. 24 deadline. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declined to make any predictions for what he called a "critical week", when negotiators ...

(Reuters) - A nuclear agreement betweenIranand six major powers can be reached by a Nov. 24 deadline, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Tuesday, but Tehran needs to show more flexibility in negotiations. "I believe a deal can be done," Hammond said following a London meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. "But we will not ...