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’Talks results depend on P5+1 approach’

18 January 2011 17:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A top Iranian diplomat says if major world powers adopt a logical and positive approach toward talks with Iran, good results could be expected to be achieved, APA reports quoting Press TV.

â€œWe will enter the talks with a positive view, and we believe that the undeniable potentials of the Islamic Republic of Iran create a good opportunity for cooperation,â€ Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said in an interview with Turkey’s state-television TRT.

â€œIf the other party also approach the talks between Iran and the P5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the US plus Germany -- positively and wisely, very good results could be achieved,â€ he added.

The next round of talks between Iran and the P5+1 will be held in the Turkish city of Istanbul on January 21 and 22.

Jalili rejected the claim that Iran was trying to buy time and said, â€œWe announced in Geneva talks that there is no need to halt negotiations, and talks could be continued.â€

Iran and the representatives of the P5+1 held their last round of multifaceted talks in Geneva on December 6 and 7.

â€œCertain powers introduce themselves as the representatives of the world’s public opinion, but the era of such way of thinking is over,â€ Jalili said.

Iran’s top negotiator criticized the existing double standards regarding certain countries’ nuclear activity and asked â€œWhy has the activity of few thousands centrifuges in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) caused such sensitivity?â€

He noted that â€œcertain powers sign agreements with countries which are not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty â€¦ and some of these countries even have conducted nuclear tests.â€

The IAEA has verified the peaceful nature and non-diversion of Iran’s nuclear program 25 times in its reports, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council concluded.

The US and its allies accuse Iran of developing a military nuclear program, and used this pretext to pressure the UN Security Council to impose a fourth round of sanctions against Iran’s financial and military sectors in June.

Iranian officials have repeatedly refuted the charges, arguing that as a signatory to the NPT and a member of the IAEA, Tehran has a right to use peaceful nuclear technology.