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EU mulls response to Iran talks invitation

07 July 2010, 21:49 CET
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(STRASBOURG) - The European Union and six world powers are mulling how to respond to a letter from Iran's chief nuclear negotiator who offered to resume negotiations, an EU spokesman said Wednesday.

The office of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton received the letter from the Iranian official, Saeed Jalili, on Wednesday morning and are "analysing" its content to quickly provide a response, he said.

A European diplomat said the letter was "more positive" than previous missives from Tehran.

Iran's state news agency IRNA reported that Jalili told Ashton in the letter that Iran was ready to resume talks over its atomic programme with six world powers from September 1 should a number of conditions be met.

Jalili said the six -- the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany -- must answer whether the talks are aimed at "engagement and cooperation or continued confrontation and hostility towards Iranians."

Ashton had written to Jalili in mid-June to request a resumption of negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany after the UN imposed new sanctions on Iran.


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