Greece believes that the world community needs to continue talks with
Iran on its nuclear program, Greek President Karolos Papoulias said at
a meeting with the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Manuchehr
Mottaki, RIA Novosti reports.
Papoulias says that the talks "lack trust".
Geneva will host negotiations between Iran and the six mediators,
including Russia. Iranian officials had said earlier that Tehran
started its own uranium extraction.
Papoulias said that Greece does not want a new war and stated that it
will assist the EU in establishing a dialogue.
Iran denied that the nuclear program has military nature and said that
it has the right to nuclear energy.
Mottaki arrived in Athens on Monday on a two-day visit.
USA and a set of other Western countries accuse Iran of developing
nuclear arms on the background of peaceful atom. Tehran denies all the
accusations, insisting that the program is aimed at fulfilling demands
for electricity.
The UN Security Council passed the fourth resolution on Iran in June
2010, introducing harder sanctions for the refusal to clarify a set of
issues in the nuclear program, including its suspected military
nature.
