Iran’s FM leaves for Geneva talks

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left Tehran for Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, heading Iran’s nuclear team to attend fresh nuclear talks tomorrow, Tuesday by iran and the group of sextet, namely the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany. The talks are to continue for two days. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will chair the Group 5+1 during talks with Iran. The Iranian foreign minister and his counterparts from the G5+1, for the first time, met and conferred on the sidelines of the 68th UN General Assembly in New York in September. Zarif also held a meeting with his US counterpart John Kerry for the first time, a meeting which has been unprecedented since the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Iranian team includes Deputy Foreign Minister for Euro-American Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi, Director General for International Political Affairs Hamid Baeedinejad, Legal Advisor to Foreign Minister Davoud Mohammadnia and Mohammad Amiri from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told IRNA that the foreign minister will lead the Iranian team on the first day of the nuclear talks to present the Iranian fresh proposals to representatives of France, UK, US, China and Russia plus Germany and that the negotiations will proceed afterwards.