Iran, P5+1 Begin 2nd Round of Nuclear Talks in Vienna
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Iran and major powers held a second day of talks Thursday seeking to finalize a historic deal.
Meeting in Vienna, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany want to turn a framework accord reached in Switzerland on April 2 into a full agreement by June 30.
The exact details of how this will work in practice, and in particular the scale and timeframe under which the powers will lift painful sanctions, still need to be nailed down.
The deal, if it can be finalized and made to work, could put an end to a 12-year-old crisis.
The talks involved senior EU diplomat Helga Schmid, representing the P5+1 group, and Abbas Araghchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, as well as experts from all six powers and Tehran.
Other officials including US under Secretary Wendy Sherman were due to join the talks later.
In comments made on Wednesday, Araqchi stressed that the Iranian delegation in the new round of the nuclear talks will demand that the US representatives in the negotiations provide the Iranian team with "clear, precise information" on "the details related to the lifting of the sanctions."
He said the Iranian team will also demand that the US team explain about the approval of a bill by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that would allow Congress to review a possible final nuclear agreement with Iran.
The legislation was voted on in the US Senate committee in a 19-0 vote on April 14.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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