Iran to offer ‘new initiatives’ at talks with P5+1: SNSC

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili says Tehran will offer “new initiatives” during the upcoming talks with the six major world powers(P5+1).

“Iran’s representatives will participate in the negotiations with new initiatives and we hope that the P5+1 countries will also enter talks with constructive approaches,” Jalili told reporters in Tehran on Wednesday, IRNA reported.

“The language of threat and pressure against the Iranian nation has never yielded results but will lead to more seriousness in the attitude of the Iranian nation,” he added.

He emphasized, “We are ready to hold progressive and successful talks on cooperation.”

Jalili said a dialogue-oriented cooperation approach to ties with Iran will be successful.

The SNSC secretary noted that the P5+1 countries-the US, Russia, China, Britain, France plus Germany- need time to be ready for the talks.

He lauded the Islamic Republic’s progress and accomplishments over the past year, particularly the production of fuel rods for the Tehran Research Reactor, and stated that the country should strongly defend its rights.

Iran and the P5+1 have held two rounds of talks, one in Geneva in December 2010 and another in the Turkish city of Istanbul in January 2011.

Tehran says it is ready to resume the talks based on common grounds; however, it has repeatedly made it clear that it will not negotiate over any of its nuclear rights.

Iran maintains that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to acquire and develop nuclear technology for peaceful objectives.