{{The European Union and Iran will discuss a resumption of nuclear negotiations during a United Nations gathering this month, possibly setting a date for a new round of talks aimed ultimately at preventing a new Middle East war.}}<\/p>\n
Talks between Iran and six world powers overseen by the EU’s top diplomat have been stalled since April. The West is keen to resume them with Iran having elected a moderate president but still expanding its uranium enrichment capacity and Israel brandishing hints of bombing runs on Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n
President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday the Iranian foreign ministry would take over negotiations in what appeared a move to streamline Iran’s nuclear diplomacy, after years of security hardliners dominating the process.<\/p>\n
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton spoke to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday and agreed to meet him to discuss planning, including a date, for new talks on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n
“I was responding to the news that the foreign ministry will take responsibility of the talks,” she told reporters about her call to Zarif, speaking ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Vilnius, Lithuania. “We have dates available and he and I will meet in order to get things moving.”<\/p>\n
Ashton said she has developed a “rapport” with Zarif since his appointment after Rouhani’s election in June and had reiterated to him the six big powers’ desire to talk soon.<\/p>\n
Western powers in the group – the United States, France, Britain and Germany – believe Iran is seeking the ability to make nuclear weapons and have engineered painful international economic sanctions to pressure Tehran into making concessions.<\/p>\n
The Islamic Republic denies any bomb agenda, saying it needs nuclear power for electricity generation and medical research.<\/p>\n
The two non-Western big powers – Russia and China – are not convinced Iran seeks nuclear weapons capability but want it to clear up doubts about its intentions through a negotiated deal.<\/p>\n
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