The European Union (EU) has confirmed receiving Iran's letter regarding its readiness to resume talks with the major world powers over its nuclear program, Press TV reported.
"We received the letter today and we're studying it, we're consulting with our E3+3 partners," Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday.
Announcing Tehran's readiness to resume talks, Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said earlier on Wednesday that the success of negotiations is tied to the P5+1's (China, France, Russia, the UK and the US plus Germany) constructive approach to the Islamic Republic's initiatives.
Iran and the P5+1 held two rounds of multifaceted talks in Geneva in December 2010 and in the Turkish city of Istanbul in January 2011.
While Tehran says it is ready to continue the talks based on common grounds, it has stressed that it will not give up any of its rights.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program.
Iran, however, maintains that, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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