British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday there was no breakthrough yet in the Iran nuclear talks as they stretched into a sixth day, but insisted work was continuing for a deal.
“I don’t think we are at any kind of breakthrough moment yet,” Hammond said as he arrived in Vienna for talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry. But Hammond stressed: “The work goes on. You’re going to see over the next few days ministers coming and ministers going to maintain the momentum of these discussions.”
Global powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States — have given themselves an extra week to July 7 to try to nail down a deal curtailing Iran’ nuclear programme after more than 20 months of intense negotiations.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano today held talks in Tehran, seeking a way around one of the thorniest issues: a stalled probe into Iran’s suspected nuclear bomb development.