Library Documents on Iran's Nuclear Program
November 11, 2013
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for speaking to the BBC. You’ve just come from Geneva where you had talks about Iran’s nuclear program. How close did you get to a deal? Was it just a few words? Was it just one more day?SECRETARY KERRY: Well, we were very, very close, actually, extremely close. I think we were separated by four or five...
November 10, 2013
We have just come from a long meeting this evening with the E3+3 ministers, after three days of intense and constructive discussions.A lot of concrete progress has been achieved but some differences remain.We want to thank the ministers who came and joined us and we want to thank our Swiss and UN hosts.Minister Zarif and I will reconvene together...
November 10, 2013
President Hassan Rouhani Sunday dismissed the claims that the unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran forced Tehran to attend talks with the six major world powers.Addressing an open session of the Majlis, the President described the sanctions as “illegal and inefficient” and said, “We did not sit at the negotiating table because of sanctions.”
November 10, 2013
SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you for hanging in here with all of us in what has obviously been a long and interesting process, but a very productive one if I can say so. I want to thank my colleagues from the United Kingdom, Turkey, France, Russia and China. And I particularly want to thank Lady Catherine Ashton for her leadership and for the European...
November 10, 2013
QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome back to Meet the Press.SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Good to be with you, David.QUESTION: The bottom-line goal here is to prevent Iran from producing or acquiring a nuclear bomb. You have said that in the interim, you want a complete halt on their weapons program. Clearly, there’s not a deal yet; they are not in a...
November 10, 2013
Foreign Secretary William Hague:Good morning. Well, there are still some gaps – they’re narrow gaps. You ask, ‘What went wrong’? I would say that a great deal went right. This is a very difficult negotiation, but it’s fundamental to international peace and security over the next few years so we have to persist.
November 10, 2013
We have two days of very intensive negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program behind us in which we have managed to achieve significant progress.Nonetheless there are still some questions which have yet to be resolved. We have thus decided that the High Representative and the Political Directors will resume the talks with Iran in the near...
November 10, 2013
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday that good progress was made in nuclear talks and expressed hope that the two sides would reach an agreement in the next stages.Araqchi, who is also a member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, told reporters that the Geneva talks were intensive...
Participation of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Talks on Iran’s Nuclear Programme
November 10, 2013
On the 9 November a meeting between foreign ministers of the P5+1 international mediators on Iran’s Nuclear Programme (United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, United States, France) with the participation of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union Catherine Ashton and the Iranian Foreign...
November 9, 2013
We have conducted very specific and long negotiations. But it was time well spent. Everybody agrees that we have grounds for joint work to collectively determine the parameters of the solution to Iran’s nuclear problem on the basis of the requirements included in the decisions of the IAEA, its Board of Governors and UNSC resolutions.