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“Non-proliferation of atomic weapons which are a big danger should be one of our top priorities in negotiations with the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) in the next round (in Baghdad),” Vice-Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmayeel Kosari said on Saturday. Kosari also underlined that removal of the western sanctions against Iran over its peaceful nuclear program should be high on the agenda of the next round of talks between Iran and the world powers. “Removal of sanctions, which are bullying and irrational moves, should be the focal point in the talks,” he reiterated. Iran and the six world powers resumed negotiations in Istanbul last Saturday after a year of stalled talks and are due to continue their talks in Iraq’s capital city, Baghdad, on May 23. Tehran’s chief negotiator Saeed Jalili headed the Iranian side, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton led the delegations of the world powers. “What was discussed in the talks today was an emphasis on our nation’s nuclear rights based on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),” Jalili told reporters after two rounds of talks with the representatives of the Group 5+1. Jalili also stressed that withdrawing sanctions against Iran should be a focal point in any future talks on cooperation between Iran and the world powers. Asked if the two sides had any discussions over those nuclear states which are not party to the NPT and do not, thus, find themselves bound to the international rules and community, he said today’s talks more focused on the framework of future negotiations and cooperation, “but this is a vital issue in nuclear cooperation, specially on disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons”.

“The representatives of Iran will participate in the negotiations with new initiatives and we hope that the Group 5+1 countries (the five permanent UN Security Council member plus Germany) enter the talks with constructive approaches,” Jalili, who is also the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), said at a news conference in Tehran today. He underscored that Iran is ready to have successful and progressive talks for further cooperation, and expressed the hope that the opposite party to the negotiations would enter the talks with a similar approach in order for the new round of talks to produce some results which would build the Iranian nation’s trust. Iran and the Group 5+1 agreed on Sunday to resume their talks in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 14 and a second round in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. The last meeting between the two sides took place in Istanbul in January 2011. Iran and the G5+1 had also held two rounds of multifaceted talks in Geneva in December 2010. Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had also earlier this week called on the G5+1 to take part in the upcoming negotiations with Iran in an honest way and free from any precondition. “Setting conditions before the meeting means concluding before talks, that is completely meaningless and none of the (negotiating) parties will accept conditions prior to negotiation,” Salehi said on Monday. “We hope that the G5+1 comes to the negotiating table honestly,” Salehi stated, adding that Iran, too, will make honest efforts to work out a win-win result desirable for both sides. “We have our own views in the meeting and G5+1, too, has its own views, but we should find the commonalities,” Salehi noted.