IRI optimistic about further P5+1 talks

29 February 2012 | 13:44 Code : 1898473 Latest Headlines

IRIB -  Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says he is optimistic that talks with the world's six major powers (P5+1 group) will continue. 


Salehi made the remarks after addressing the UN Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, in which he called for global nuclear disarmament. 


Iran and the P5+1 group -- Russia, China, France, Britain, the US, and Germany -- held two rounds of multifaceted talks, one in Geneva in December 2010 and another in Istanbul, Turkey in January 2011. 


While Tehran says it is ready to continue the talks based on common grounds, it has emphasized that it will not give up any of its rights.