Fars News Agency :: FM: Iran to Send Letter to G5+1 to Announce Readiness for Talks

“Mr. (Saeed) Jalili as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator had earlier announced his readiness to hold talks with the G5+1 and he will announce this once again in black and white,” Salehi told FNA in Tehran on Wednesday. “We hope that the meeting will be held in a not far future,” he added. Salehi had also earlier this week expressed the hope that the upcoming negotiations with the G5+1 would yield good results. “I think upcoming talks with the G 5+1 will be a successful meeting, because I feel the other side is now interested to find a way to settle Iran’s nuclear issue,” Salehi said upon his arrival at Addis Ababa airport on Saturday evening. The foreign minister also said that Iran is always ready to settle its nuclear issue in an appropriate way. Concerning talks with the Group 5+1, Salehi said that Iran has already declared its readiness for talks and date and venue of the negotiation will be declared in Mr. Jalili’s letter to Ms. Ashton. Iran and G5+1 attended three rounds of talks in Istanbul, Turkey, in January 2011. The Iranian side was presided by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili, while Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, headed delegations from the six world powers.