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June 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Michael Mann noted that today’s talks between Iran and the P5+1 — the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany — are progressing in a calm and positive atmosphere and there is easy interaction between the two sides.
Iran and the P5+1 launched the third round of their new series of talks in the Russian capital of Moscow on Monday.
The two sides held three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in late May after an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Vladimir Sotnikov, senior researcher at the institute of oriental studies, Russian Academy of Science, from Moscow, to further discuss the issue.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Why don’t you first tell us, given the fact that there was the Istanbul 2 talks, then there was Baghdad, and now we have Moscow, how you see the pattern of talks up to this point?
Sotnikov: I think that it’s a good thing already that the talks are going on because after 13 months of a break in the negotiations between the leading countries of the West and Russia, including Russia, China, Germany and France, there was no negotiations. Now the negotiations are going on.
I think that probably it’s not too much expectance to show that there will be a major breakthrough, but it’s a very good thing that the Western partners of Iran in these talks think and see that Iran is serious about reaching a comprehensive arrangement on the so-called Iranian nuclear program.
Russia is very much helpful in this because, and this is an official position of Russia and I share it, Iran has all the rights to have peaceful atomic energy. I think this should be the prerequisite for any further negotiations which I think will follow and I think they will follow in the future.
Press TV: Iran has taken this stance and they’ve echoed that in a statement that they revealed today, and that was the fact that Iran is very serious about these talks and also that they’re going to sit down and expose or reveal their seriousness, show to the P5+1 that they’re going to discuss the proposal that they have put forward.
Iran is not getting the feeling that the P5+1 is reciprocating the seriousness in terms of showing an intent not only [for] going into the talks but also regarding the five-point package of proposals that Iran has presented to them. Why do you think this lack of motivation, so to speak, from the P5+1?
Sotnikov: The only reasonable or feasible explanation to this could be that the P5+1 is not a homogeneous party. There are European countries, there is the United States which is included in this P5+1, and there are China and Russia.
Up to now, I think despite the fact that probably before the negotiations which are going on now in Moscow, the positions of these different participants, of this P5+1 group somehow coincided with each other.
Despite this fact, I think that still there is a difference in approach, say in the American approach, in the European approach, on behalf of Russia and China. Because of that, in the future negotiations, there could be different moments. When I say different moments, there could be different proposals which could follow the Moscow meeting here.
Iran actually showed what it intends to do [something] and what it wants, as well as P5+1 recognized that the step-by-step approach which was suggested first by the Russian federation could be working.
I think that still what is lacking here, is a higher level of trust between the Islamic Republic of Iran on the one side, and some Western countries on the other side. That is the first thing which is needed in these kinds of negotiations. This is a high-level trust.
On a mutual trust, they could be going forward in any future negotiations. I think there is a kind of trust which, for example, exists now between the Russian federation and Iran.
GMA/SS
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