Iran nuclear talks 'positive' after 15-month break

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Source: BBC

14 April 2012 Last updated at 11:52 GMT

Iran nuclear talks 'positive' after 15-month break

Key talks on Iran's controversial nuclear programme, which have resumed after a 15-month impasse, have been described as "positive".

Six world powers - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - and Iran are meeting in Istanbul in Turkey.

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Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said the talks were "totally different" from the last session 15 months ago.

"There is a positive atmosphere... contrasting with the last time," he said.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17706248

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1. Iran, powers to resume talks in Baghdad on May 23

Source: Reuters

Iran, powers to resume talks in Baghdad on May 23

14 Apr 2012 18:27

Source: reuters // Reuters

ISTANBUL, April 14 (Reuters) - Iran and world powers agreed on Saturday to hold a new round of talks in Baghdad on May 23, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said after the first meeting in more than a year on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.

"We want now to move to a sustained process of dialogue ... We will be guided by (the) principle of step by step approach," Ashton told a news conference, calling the first meeting useful and constructive. "We will meet on May 23 in Baghdad." (Reporting by Justyna Pawlak and Alexandra Hudson; editing by Maria Golovnina)

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/iran-powers-to-resume-talks-in-baghdad-on-may-23/