‘Certain progress achieved in N-talks’

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday, however, “I cannot say that we reached some sort of breakthrough or achieved decisive progress.”

He added, nevertheless, that Moscow was satisfied with the outcome despite the remaining disagreements.

“There are grounds to speak of certain progress,” Ryabkov said

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The expert-level meeting was held on July 3 in Istanbul with the participation of representatives and experts from Iran and the P5+1 comprising Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany.

The office of EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton announced in a statement on Wednesday that Iran and the P5+1 will hold a follow-up technical meeting. No date, however, was given for their meeting.

“The technical meeting in Istanbul will be followed by a meeting between Helga Schmid and Dr. Ali Bagheri [the deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council],” the statement said.

Iran and the P5+1 agreed to hold the expert-level talks during their negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow, in June.

The Moscow meetings came after three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in May and an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.

The two sides had, prior to the Istanbul talks, held two rounds of negotiations, one in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2010, and another again in Istanbul in January 2011.

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