Vienna-6 Resumes Drafting Session for 7th Day

Vienna– Iran and EU officials resumed talks on drafting a comprehensive nuclear agreement here on Tuesday.

Deputies of the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton started talks over drafting the final nuclear agreement on the 7th day of the 6th round of negotiations between Iran and the six world powers.

Abbas Araqchi and MajidTakt-e Ravanchi for Iran and Helga Schmid and Stefan Celement for the EU are to continue the process of drafting the final comprehensive nuclear agreement.

The 6th round of the nuclear talks between Iran and G5+1 started in Vienna on Wednesday and will continue until July 29 by which time the two sides are expected to reach a comprehensive deal.

Araqchi assures Iran’s right of defending nuclear rights

Meanwhile in Tehran, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi has said that the Iranian team will not give up any of the nation’s nuclear rights during the ongoing talks with Group 5+1 in Vienna.

ˈWe assure the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) and all of the Iranian nation that we will not give up any of our nuclear rights,ˈAraqchi stressed on his twitter page on Tuesday.

His comments came following Monday’s statement by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution that he fully trusts the government of President Hassan Rouhani and his negotiating team.

Referring to the mounting pressures on Iran by Western states, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “We trust our negotiators and believe that they would not allow any violation of nation’s right.”

Araqchi said that the Leaderˈs trust ˈis a source of encouragement for us and is the greatest supportˈ for Iran’s nuclear team.

Araqchi is in Vienna along with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and a number of senior Iranian diplomats.

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