Pakistan Eyes Lifting of Sanctions on Iran

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Islamabad said on Saturday very good progress has been made in the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 over the past one and a half years, expressing optimism about the clinching of a practical deal between the two sides in the near future.

Date: 28 February 2015 - 21:37

News ID: ۱۱۵۰۹

There are many problems and tensions in the region and a good agreement between Iran and the P5+1 countries would be a major step toward settling regional conflicts and woes, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam Khan told IRNA.
She added that a practical deal on Iran’s nuclear program and removal of sanctions would be a significant opening in the path of economic cooperation, particularly among regional countries.
Islamabad has always emphasized that differences over Iran’s nuclear issue should only be solved through negotiations, Aslam Khan said.
She stressed the importance of concentrating efforts on the settlement of issues instead of adding more regional and international problems.
The spokesperson said serious nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 countries over the past 18 months indicate that all parties to the negotiations are determined to reach a comprehensive deal.
Political directors from Iran and the P5+1 group’s foreign ministries will hold a fresh round of talks about Tehran’s nuclear program in Montreux, Switzerland, on March 5, EU spokeswoman, Catherine Ray, said on Friday.
A senior Russian official dismissed Western media reports about Russia's view on a final deal between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers, saying Moscow has not lost interest in achieving a positive result from negotiations on Iran's nuclear deal.
A success in the nuclear talks between Iran and the six countries will be in Russia's best interests, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"We were somewhat alarmed to see speculations in some Western media outlets lately that Russia, for some reasons, is losing interest in the productive completion of the negotiations and has slackened its activity for some irrelevant considerations. This categorically doesn't reflect the reality," Ryabkov told Interfax.
Adding that Russia is interested in playing its "role in favor of a productive completion of the negotiations,” he emphasized that everybody should be interested in the faster normalization of the process of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 countries about Tehran’s nuclear program.
"A potential multilateral deal with Iran should not set precedents in the international system negatively,” Ryabkov said.