Tehran expects progress at negotiations with six mediators (UK, China, France, Russia, USA and Germany) in Moscow, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in Tehran at a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Trend reports.
Negotiations of Iran and the six mediators were held in Baghdad on May 23-24 and Istanbul in mid-April. The new round of talks was set for June 18-19 in Moscow.
The six mediators and the IAEA have been trying to persuade Iran to stop uranium enrichment since 2003, saying that the process threatens the nuclear non-proliferation regime. Negotiations were hindered in 2009 when the IAEA criticized Iran for building the second uranium-enrichment facility and urged Tehran to confirm that no other unannounced nuclear facilities had been under construction.
Salehi added that Tehran and Moscow have common grounds on the Syrian crisis.
