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Iran nuclear nogatiators return back to Switzerland for "possible deal"

Xinhua, March 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

A fresh round of talks over Iran's long-disputed nuclear program will resume Sunday evening in Lausanne of Switzerland, which will participated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, as well as diplomats from other world major countries.

A source close to the Iranian delegate said that after meeting his U.S. counterpart Sunday evening in Lausanne, Zarif will go to Brussels to talk with his EU peers and then will return to Lausanne for further talks.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, and U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz also are scheduled to meet in a bilateral nuclear talks Sunday afternoon in Lausanne.

The Information office of Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) on Sunday morning has opened a press center in Lausanne, the first time of its kind for the Iran nuclear talks this year held in the country.

"Through agreement with the participating parties, Switzerland will be organizing media accreditation and a press filing center for the international media traveling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear negotiations with Iran," the FDFA Information office said in a letter to the press.

According to a source close to Zarif, the Iranian top diplomat said in the plane to Lausanne eralier on Sunday that if there were political will, making a deal would be possible.

"If other side's political will were like ours, deal would not be out of mind," Zarif was cited as saying.

Kerry said earlier that he hoped "in the next days" it would be possible to reach an interim deal with Iran if Tehran can show that its nuclear power program is for peaceful purposes only.

"If it's peaceful, let's get it done. And my hope is that in the next days that will be possible," he said in Egypt before heading to Switzerland. Endit