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<\/p>\nISTANBUL (Hurriyet Daily News)\u2013Iran and six world powers ended talks Tuesday with an agreement to hold their next round of nuclear negotiations in Istanbul early next year.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe and Iran agreed to a continuation of these talks in late January in Istanbul, where we plan to discuss practical ideas and ways of cooperating toward resolution of our core concerns about the nuclear issue,\u201d European Union foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement after two days of talks in Geneva on Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
Following the Geneva meetings, Ashton called Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday to inform him about the decision to hold the next rounds of talks in Istanbul.<\/p>\n
The talks in Geneva were positive, Ashton told Davutoglu, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal. \u201cDavutoglu welcomed the decision to hold the next talks in Turkey and conveyed his gratification about hosting the meeting,\u201d Unal told the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Tuesday. \u201cHe said Turkey would continue to contribute to global and regional peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Unal, the Iranians had told Ankara on more than one occasion that they would feel more comfortable meeting in Turkey. The spokesman also noted that Ashton had called Davutoglu just prior to the Geneva talks and thanked the minister for Turkey\u2019s contribution to restarting the discussion with Iran.<\/p>\n
Ashton had previously rejected Tehran\u2019s preference for a meeting in Istanbul, where Iran would have Turkish allies on the sidelines. Asked if Turkey would participate in the January talks, Unal said no involvement on the part of Ankara has yet been planned.<\/p>\n
Following the two days of talks in Geneva between Iran and six major powers \u2013 the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany \u2013 Ashton said in a statement that they were ready to address and seek common ground with Iran.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had nearly two days of detailed substantive talks, focusing on the Iranian nuclear program and the need for Iran to comply with its international obligations. The countries I represent are united in seeking a resolution of the international community\u2019s concerns regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear program, which is the central purpose of these talks,\u201d Ashton said. \u201cWe recognize Iran\u2019s rights but insist it fulfill its obligations. We are ready to address and seek common ground also on other issues of mutual interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saed Jalili, Iran\u2019s chief nuclear negotiator, confirmed the timing and venue of the planned talks, while saying his country would not waver from its insistence that it has a right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe reject the idea of talks under pressure,\u201d he told reporters. Avoiding any mention of nuclear issues, Jalili would only say the talks will be \u201con the issue of cooperation\u201d between Tehran and the six world powers.<\/p>\n
In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said lifting the sanctions imposed by the United Nations and others would help achieve progress in the talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you come to talks with sincerity, loyalty to the law, friendship and respect for the definite rights of the Iranian nation, and then cancel the wrong mistakes you made \u2013 which didn\u2019t have any impact on the Iranian nation \u2013 and cancel resolutions, sanctions and some restrictions that you imposed, it will definitely be helpful,\u201d state TV\u2019s website quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.<\/p>\n
Talks between Iran and the six world powers went to a recess Monday with no sign that Tehran was ready to discuss the U.N. Security Council\u2019s demands that it curb nuclear activities that could be harnessed to make weapons, an official at the negotiations told the Associated Press. \u201cAbout 75 percent\u201d of Monday\u2019s three-hour morning session was devoted to nuclear issues, the official said.<\/p>\n
That raised some hope because the Islamic republic had come to the table insisting that the negotiations address Iran\u2019s nuclear program only peripherally \u2013 if at all.<\/p>\n
Although the afternoon plenary was also mostly taken up with nuclear issues, the official said it was dominated by Jalili\u2019s complaints about past wrongs committed by the West against his country in the nuclear field, in statements reaching back in history to 1953.<\/p>\n
That clearly fell short of hopes from the six other countries that Iran would at least address the Security Council demands as a start to discussions on enrichment and related issues. \u201cObviously we have not made progress on the substance,\u201d said the official.<\/p>\n
Tehran says it does not want atomic weapons and insists its nuclear program is only designed to provide more power for its growing population. But it is under four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment of uranium, which can be used to make fuel for reactors as well as fissile warhead material.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s talks in Vienna resulted in announcements that Iran had agreed to give up much of its enriched uranium in exchange for fuel for a medical-research reactor. However the deal fell apart and no further meetings were held for the last 14 months.<\/p>\n
Iran said in November that any nuclear fuel swap with the major powers must be based on an agreement it signed with Brazil and Turkey in May.<\/p>\n
Turkey and Brazil brokered a fuel-swap deal with Tehran that would have seen Iran ship much of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in return for nuclear fuel rods needed for a medical research reactor. Western nations rejected the deal and backed a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Iran on June 9.<\/p>\n
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