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2nd LD Writethru: Iranian FM says nuclear talks could run as long as needed

Xinhua, July 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Iranian foreign minister said the marathon nuclear talks could go as long as necessary, when meeting with the Chinese foreign minister on Monday.

"We believe there should not be any extension (of the nuclear talks). However, we can keep working as long as needed," Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Vienna, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported.

A diplomat close to the talks told Xinhua Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov might leave in the afternoon after meeting with other sides involved in the talks, but yet to be confirmed.

The leave of Lavrov might be not a good sign of the potential agreement on Monday, July 13, the third deadline in the over two weeks talks.

If a deal is to be agreed very soon, all the foreign ministers are supposed to stay in Vienna.

Wang earlier said the parties should put an end to the marathon nuclear negotiations, as conditions are in place for a good deal, an agreement could be reached anytime in Vienna.

"China believes no agreement could be perfect, ... Conditions are already in place for us to reach a good agreement," Wang told reporters before he entered the Palais Coburg hotel, adding "We believe that there can not and should not be further delay of the negotiations."

Responding to the timing of reaching a deal, Wang said "any time."

This is Wang's third time joining the meeting in Vienna.

After over two weeks of bargain in the Palais Coburg hotel in the capital city of Austria, Iran and the six world major countries are heading to a deal to put an end to the decade-old standoff.

The talks has go far beyond the deadlines June 30 and July 7, and might also miss the Monday deadline if the tough issues are not resolved still.

The sides have resolved many of the tough issues in the talks which was seen as an impossible task, such as capping Iran's nuclear capacity, transparency of Tehran's atomic plan in the past 18 months marathon negotiation.

Western states seek to bar Iran for a nuclear bomb by a comprehensive nuclear deal while Tehran wants sanction relief from the West which has seriously hammered the county's economy. Endit