The Iranian foreign minister hopes a joint statement of understandings between Iran and the P5+1 will be issued by midnight, though it has not yet been drafted, the semi-official Fars News Agency reports.
“No statement has yet been prepared,” Zarif says. “We hope to achieve results today.”
“If everything goes well, there will be a formal, public statement by midnight,” he says.
“We have said right from the beginning that no agreement would be signed today. We have always stated that there could be only one agreement which could go into effect at the end of the talks on July 1 if everything goes well,” Zarif adds.
The foreign minister says there is “good hope for reaching a common understanding.”
With regard to the joint statement, he indicates that disagreements between Iran and the world powers may arise in the process of drafting the statement.
“We are supposed to reach consensus and the delegations will start working on the text in the near future,” he says. “Things might grow difficult when drafting starts; now we believe that problems have almost been resolved.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif talks to members of the media while walking through a courtyard at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel during an extended round of talks April 1, 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland (photo credit: AFP /BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL)
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