Tehran, P5+1 to Meet Next Week for Talks on Iran Nuclear Program

VIENNA (Sputnik) — "We are going to continue, we will return here next week," French Foreign Ministry's political director for Iranian affairs Nicolas de Riviere said clarifying that the next meeting will be held at the level of political directors and experts.

Earlier on Thursday, a source in the Russian delegation told journalists that a plenary meeting of the P5+1 group and Iran, as well as a Russian-Iranian bilateral meeting, have taken place in the Austrian capital.

On Wednesday, diplomats from China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and Iran met for another round of talks in Vienna.

The mechanism of re-imposing sanctions in the event of Iran's breaching the conditions of the deal was one of the sticking points in the talks, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) gaining access to Iranian military sites, which Tehran says are not related to its nuclear program.

In April, Iran and the P5+1 group worked out a political framework agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne. Under the deal, Tehran pledged to cut back its uranium enrichment and decrease its number of centrifuges, in exchange for a gradual lifting of international sanctions.

The sides are due to work out a final text of the comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program by the end of June.