Jalili, Ashton to meet after deputies' meeting - Russian FM spokesman

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich announced that Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will hold a meeting after talks between their deputies, FNA reported.

"Deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Baqeri and deputy head of EU's foreign policy affairs, Helga Schmid are also scheduled to meet after the expert meeting held in Istanbul on July 3," Lukashevich said.

The Russian diplomat noted that after a meeting between Baqeri and Schmid, Jalili and Ashton will meet again.

"In this way an opportunity will be provided for comprehensive talks on the status of Iran's nuclear activities. The two sides will reach an agreement on continuation of talks between the team of negotiators of Iran and the Group 5+1," Lukashevich said in a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

His remarks followed two days of hectic negotiations between Iran and the G5+1 in Russia.

Iran and the G5+1 held several rounds of talks in Baghdad on May 23-24.

The Baghdad meeting came after Iran and the Group 5+1 resumed negotiations in Istanbul on April 14 after more than a year of stalled talks.

The two sides agreed to hold experts meetings ahead of the Moscow talks, but the world powers later shrugged off implementing the agreement.

In Baghdad talks last month, both Tehran and the so-called Group 5+1offered their own package of proposals.

During five sessions of negotiations in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday, the two sides' negotiators exchanged views over the packages of proposals they had presented in Baghdad.