TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday it is hopeful “forward movement” continues during talks with major world powers over its controversial nuclear drive, the state broadcaster and ISNA news agency reported.
“Almaty I meeting bore positive results, and we also hope that in Almaty II this forward movement continues,” IRIB’s website reported Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying in Dushanbe, where he is attending a ministerial meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue. He was referring to a meeting in the Kazahkh capital with the P5+1 group (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany), which offered to ease non-oil or financial sector-related sanctions in exchange for concessions over Tehran’s sensitive uranium enrichment operations.
The offer also demanded a tougher nuclear inspection regime and the interruption of enrichment operations at the Fordo bunker facility. AFP
