Iran, World Powers Start Experts Meeting in Istanbul

Expert teams from Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) started a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday.

The meeting was stated in a final agreement between Iran’s top negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at the end of their latest round of talks in Moscow.

After a 15-month hiatus, Iran and the Group 5+1 held several rounds of talks this year, with the latest one in Moscow on June 18-19.

At the end of the Moscow talks, Jalili and Ashton announced that they would hold a meeting after talks between their deputies.

Ali Baqeri, who is Jalili’s deputy in both negotiations with the world powers and in Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), and deputy head of EU’s foreign policy affairs Helga Schmid will meet after the expert meeting in Istanbul today.

After a meeting between Baqeri and Schmid, Jalili and Ashton will meet again.