Baku-APA. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that he thought the tone of the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna was "rather positive", APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Speaking with radio France Inter on Tuesday morning, Fabius confirmed the talks had been extended until March or possibly the end of June on account of a favorable agreement not having been met.
The negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program aimed at reaching an agreement which would ensure that Iran's nuclear program would remain exclusively peaceful.
The foreign ministers and negotiators of the P5+1 group (China, the United States, France, Britain, Russia and Germany), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran had until midnight local time on Monday.
"First, on the uranium-enrichment capacity, I found there was still some movement," said Fabius.
On the issue of the transformation of nuclear facilities, the French foreign minister said the involved parties drafted technical solutions which might help solve the problem of Arak, a heavy water reactor.
Regarding the Fordo nuclear site, the minister said there had been "some progress also."
As for the problem of verification, which would ensure Iran would hold to its commitments, Fabius said there had been a progressive shift in that area.
"Iran has every right to have whatever civil nuclear energy it wants, but not the atomic bomb, because it would be very dangerous for regional and international security," Fabius said.
The West wants Iran to significantly scale back its nuclear program to address its concern of proliferation risk, while Iran insists that its nuclear right is inalienable.
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