(TEHRAN) - Talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief in Geneva aiming to end the atomic crisis were a "step forward", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.

"All negotiations are a step forward and the negotiations yesterday were negotiations that were a step forward," said Ahmadinejad, according to the official IRNA news agency.

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