The foreign ministers of the six world powers and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif met for an hour and fifteen in Lausanne on Monday in an attempt to break the impasse in nuclear talks.
This was the first time all the foreign ministers have met since the decisive round of talks began.
Thirty-six hours remain for Iran and the powers to resolve their differences and reach a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
Ahead of the meeting, the foreign ministers of the world powers held a meeting Sunday evening in order to coordinate. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who arrived on Sunday at the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, said that a deal is within reach, yet in order to clinch it Iran would have to made some hard decisions.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview to Iranian television that the Islamic Republic has demonstrated political will and flexibility, and now it's the powers' turn to show good will and make decisions, particularly in regard to the Iranian demand to remove sanctions. According to Araghchi, progress was made in the talks Sunday but there are still two or three unresolved issues.
Araghchi stressed Iran's demand to scrap all six Security Council decisions that were made in the past decade and which imposed harsh sanctions on Tehran. He added that the option of transferring Iran's stockpile of uranium enriched to a level of 3.5-5 percent out of the country is not on the table.
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