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QUESTION: Okay. And then can you - do you have any readout of the P-5+1 meeting?

MR. KELLY: I do, yeah.

QUESTION: And there's reports from - quoting a German official saying that they expect Iran to meet --

MR. KELLY: Yeah.

QUESTION: -- with the reps before the UN General Assembly.

MR. KELLY: Yeah. I was able to talk to Bill Burns. He said that it was a constructive meeting and most of the focus was on ways to get Iran back to the table. They took note of the latest report of the IAEA director general and again called on Iran to engage in direct talks based on mutual respect. They reaffirmed their political goal and underlined the necessity to achieve results in the diplomatic track. They stressed that a negotiated solution is still open to Iran.

With reference to Dr. Jalili's statement this week that Iran is ready to resume talks, they stressed that Iran should respond to the offer by agreeing to - I'm sorry, let me start that over again. They expected Iran to offer - to respond to the offer of talks in April by agreeing to meet before the UN General Assembly meeting.

They underlined the right of Iran to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, but that Iran should be aware of the urgent need to restore confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program through full cooperation with the international community.

QUESTION: Can you say --

QUESTION: So is there a deadline when you say that you expect them to respond by --

MR. KELLY: I don't know if I'd call it a deadline, but it certainly is giving them a timeframe.

QUESTION: Can you say - this is one of these times where we have to parse the word "expect." I'm sorry to say, but does that mean that there is reason to expect that the Iranians will meet with them before --

MR. KELLY: No, I think --

QUESTION: -- the UN --

MR. KELLY: -- a more --

QUESTION: -- or they - are you saying that you want them to or they should --

MR. KELLY: They should.

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MR. KELLY: No, it's we urge - we urge Iran to respond to the offer of talks.

QUESTION: And if they don't respond, then you're going to start discussing sanctions? Was that part of the talks today?

MR. KELLY: I'm not going to predict what we're going to do. But right now, that offer's still on the table and we are urging Iran to respond.

QUESTION: Can I ask you one more?

QUESTION: Do you now recognize their statements that they want to have - the statements that came out yesterday that they want to have a meeting? Do you now recognize that? Yesterday, you would not.

MR. KELLY: We are waiting for an official response to Javier Solana's offer of talks. No response has arrived.

QUESTION: Do you have a reaction to the director general of the IAEA saying that the threat of a nuclear weapons program in Iran has been exaggerated?

MR. KELLY: I haven't seen those remarks, so I don't have a response to that.

QUESTION: Ian, just one other thing. The German official who was quoted out of Koenigstein said, or was quoted as saying, that they agreed to meet on the margins of the UN General Assembly. Does that the mean the political directors, or does that mean the foreign ministers plan to meet up in New York on the margins of UNGA?

MR. KELLY: I would expect a P-5+1 meeting in UNGA, but what the level --

QUESTION: You don't know the level. Okay.

MR. KELLY: -- will be, I'm not sure.

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