Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 17
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Iran will attend the third round of nuclear talks with P5+1 (Geneva III) with goodwill and seriousness, the Fars News Agency quoted senior member of the Iranian team of negotiators, Majid Takht Ravanchi as saying on Sunday.
We are hoped that the P5+1 will also enter the talks with such goodwill and the [disappointing] events of the Geneva II will not be repeated, he added. He referred to the support of Iran's supreme leader from the Iranian team of negotiators, saying that the P5+1 knows that the whole ruling system in the country backs us in the nuclear talks.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister and top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi has forecasted that the next round of the Iran-P5+1 negotiations on Iran's nuclear program will be hard, Mehr news agency reported on Nov. 16.
The last round of nuclear talks between Iran and the five United Nations veto powers plus Germany, which known as P5+1, ended on November 10 without any result.
The next round of talks is scheduled to be held in Geneva on November 20 and 30.
Araqchi underlined that the agreement with West would not be realized without acknowledge of Iran's nuclear rights.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton will meet in Geneva before the Iran-P5+1 delegation's talks, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister added.
Zarif will also visit Italy to meet with Italian officials on his way to Geneva, Araqchi said.
The U.S. and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon - something that Iran denies. The Islamic Republic has stated that it does not seek to develop nuclear weapons, using nuclear energy for medical research instead.