The representatives of the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) are expected to fly to Tel Aviv to update Israeli authorities about the result of the two-day talks with the Iranian negotiating team in Moscow, Haaretz reported on Monday.
Right after Baghdad talks, which wrapped up on May 24, the US top representative in the negotiations, Wendy Sherman, headed for Israel for “consultations.”
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused to meet her. Sherman delivered her report to National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror and Foreign Ministry Director-General Rafi Barak instead.
Iran and the P5+1 launched the third round of their new 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 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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