Hamid Baeedinejad, who will lead the Iranian team of negotiators, said talks among experts representing Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Earlier, the Associated Press had said that the two sides’ experts are set to hold a gathering in New York this week to embark on a fresh round of talks over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Baeedinejad said New York will host the event as the negotiating teams are already in the city to attend the preparatory conference for next year’s review of the landmark 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
The experts are scheduled to gather in New York to prepare the ground for the next ministerial-level negotiations in Vienna on May 13.
In the upcoming round of high-profile talks in Vienna, the negotiating parties will start drafting the text of an ultimate agreement to end the decade-long standoff on Iran’s nuclear case.
The two sides on November 24, 2013, clinched an interim six-month deal in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The breakthrough deal (the Joint Plan of Action), which has come into effect since January 20, stipulates that over the course of six months, Iran and the six countries will draw up a comprehensive nuclear deal which will lead to a lifting of the whole sanctions on Iran.