Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, held a meeting ahead of the second round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 group in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Press TV reported.
The first round of talks kicked off on Tuesday morning in the former Kazakh capital Almaty and concluded after three hours. There is no news about outcome of step-by-step strategy inching toward a breakthrough.
Details of talks have not been revealed. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Group 5+1 said beforehand that they would focus on exchange of packages and counter-proposals to make headway to progress.
Iran's Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton are co-chairing the delegations respectively.
As it is expected, head of the Iranian delegation, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili will respond to the "updated and balanced" proposals of "Group of six " (Russia, USA, China, Britain, France and Germany) on the Iranian nuclear program.
Iran's team of nuclear negotiators headed by Secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili arrived in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Feb. 24.
In 2012, representatives of P5+1 group and Iran held three rounds of talks in Istanbul (April 14), Baghdad (May 23-24) and Moscow (June18-19). None of these meetings resulted in breakthroughs on disputed nuclear issues.
Previously talks between the "Six Powers" and Iran were not conducted for over a year.
The U.S. and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon - something that Iran denies. The Islamic Republic has on numerous occasions stated that it does not seek to develop nuclear weapons, using nuclear energy for medical researches instead.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
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