Foreign powers ready to prolong Iranian nuclear talks

Members of the 5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, the UK, France, Russia and China - and Germany) are ready to continue nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.

According to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, there are still a lot of unsettled issues, despite the remarkable progress reached so far, ITAR-TASS reports.

The parties are now set to resume talks in a couple of weeks, the news agency cites a joint statement as saying.