January 9, 2015 - 17:41 AMT
Kerry, Zarif to discuss Iran nuclear issue in Geneva in January

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi said Friday that the country’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are to meet in Geneva in January.

The two top diplomats will travel to the Swiss city on Wednesday, Jan 14 to meet prior to the bilateral meeting of their deputies, the senior nuclear negotiator said, according to Al-Manar.

Araqchi said that the Iranian and American delegations will subsequently hold bilateral talks Jan 15 to 17 in Geneva and that Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers will negotiate at the level of deputy foreign ministers on Jan 18.

Nuclear negotiators from Iran and the P5+1 group – the U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany – wrapped up their latest round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Geneva on Dec 17, 2014.