Berlin seeks progress in Moscow talks

Westerwelle on Monday stressed the need for ‘serious’ negotiations in the Russian capital as diplomats from Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – plus Germany are engaged in negotiations.

He also called all parties to show mutual will and seek to earn each other’s trust during the Moscow talks on June 18 and 19.

Iran and the P5+1 launched the third round of their talks in Moscow on Monday.

The Iranian negotiating delegation is led by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili, and the P5+1 group is headed by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Jalili earlier urged the West to respect Tehran’s nuclear rights in order for the Moscow meeting to succeed.

He also expressed Iran’s readiness to cooperate and enter talks with “different countries on a variety of issues, including collaborations in the field of nuclear energy.”

The two-day Moscow negotiations are slated to follow up on the previous talks in Iraq and Turkey.

Iran and the P5+1 held three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in May after an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.

They had previously held two rounds of talks, one in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2010, and another in Istanbul in January 2011.

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