Six world powers will hold a new round of nuclear talks with Iran in Kazakhstan on February 26, a spokesman for the European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday, Feb 5.
EU and Iranian diplomats agreed on the date and venue earlier on Tuesday, said Michael Mann, a spokesman for Catherine Ashton. The meeting will take place in Almaty.
"The high representative … hopes that the talks will be productive and that concrete progress can be made towards a negotiated solution to meet the international community's concerns about the Iranian nuclear program," he said, according to Reuters.
The powers – the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany – hope diplomacy can persuade Iran to scale back its nuclear work, which they suspect is aimed to produce an atom bomb, a goal that Tehran denies.
