However, Ali Akbar Salehi, speaking during a visit to Ankara, says no date has been set.
The last round of talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States — and Germany, held in Istanbul a year ago, ended in failure.
Iran, accused of seeking nuclear weapons capability, has since come under tougher international sanctions that follow four rounds of UN sanctions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on January 18 that fresh sanctions could hamper efforts to resolve the Iran nuclear standoff.
“This [economic sanctions] really has nothing to do with the desire to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime,” Lavrov said. “This is really seriously calculated to have a suffocating effect on the Iranian economy and on the situation of the Iranian population, in an apparent attempt to provoke discontent.”
Iran’s envoy to the UN atomic watchdog, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, was quoted by Fars News Agency on January 17 as saying a high-level delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was to visit Iran on January 29-31 to discuss Tehran’s nuclear program.
compiled from agency reports
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