By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-24 14:19:48 | Updated at 2024-11-24 17:07:20
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Iran will hold talks about its disputed nuclear programme with three European powers on November 29, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Sunday, days after the UN atomic watchdog passed a resolution against Tehran.
Iran reacted to the resolution – proposed by Britain, France, Germany and the United States – with what government officials called various measures such as activating numerous new and advanced centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium.
The meeting will take place on Friday in Geneva, as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government seeks a solution to the nuclear impasse ahead of the inauguration in January of US president-elect Donald Trump.
A senior Iranian official confirmed that the meeting would go ahead next Friday, adding, “Tehran has always believed that the nuclear issue should be resolved through diplomacy. Iran has never left the talks.”
Separately, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei later said the deputy foreign ministers of Iran and the three European countries would take part in the talks, which he said would cover regional issues as well as the nuclear dossier.
Baghaei did not say where the talks would take place. A spokesperson for the Swiss foreign ministry directed questions to the countries taking part.
