(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "Pakistan believes that diplomatic and political ways are the best options for resolving Iran's nuclear issue," Rabbani Khar told reporters on the sidelines of the ministerial meeting of the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran on Tuesday.
"And we continue to believe that a peaceful solution can be found to this issue through mutual confidence-building between the Iranian and the western negotiating parties," she added, referring to the several rounds of talks between Iran and the world powers on different issues, including Tehran's nuclear issue.
After a 15-month hiatus, Iran and the Group 5+1(the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) held several rounds of talks this year, with the latest one in Moscow on June 18-19.
At the end of the Moscow talks, Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced that they would hold a meeting after talks between their deputies and also a meeting between the two sides' experts.
In early July, Iran and the six world powers ended two days of talks by technical experts who discussed the details of the two sides' proposals to end the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the sextet.
Later in July, the deputy lead negotiators of Iran and the six world powers, Ali Baqeri and Helga Schmidt, met in Istanbul to exchange views over the results of the experts' talks.
Also, Jalili and Ashton had a phone conversation on August 2, during which the former reminded the constructive and initiative stances presented by Tehran in Istanbul, and urged Group 5+1 to provide a clear response in this regard.
In response, Ashton hailed Iran's practicable proposals, and pledged to discus Iran's viewpoints with the representatives of the world powers to prepare a justifiable response.
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"And we continue to believe that a peaceful solution can be found to this issue through mutual confidence-building between the Iranian and the western negotiating parties," she added, referring to the several rounds of talks between Iran and the world powers on different issues, including Tehran's nuclear issue.
After a 15-month hiatus, Iran and the Group 5+1(the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) held several rounds of talks this year, with the latest one in Moscow on June 18-19.
At the end of the Moscow talks, Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced that they would hold a meeting after talks between their deputies and also a meeting between the two sides' experts.
In early July, Iran and the six world powers ended two days of talks by technical experts who discussed the details of the two sides' proposals to end the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the sextet.
Later in July, the deputy lead negotiators of Iran and the six world powers, Ali Baqeri and Helga Schmidt, met in Istanbul to exchange views over the results of the experts' talks.
Also, Jalili and Ashton had a phone conversation on August 2, during which the former reminded the constructive and initiative stances presented by Tehran in Istanbul, and urged Group 5+1 to provide a clear response in this regard.
In response, Ashton hailed Iran's practicable proposals, and pledged to discus Iran's viewpoints with the representatives of the world powers to prepare a justifiable response.
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