DHAKA: Iran’s deputy foreign minister pledged on Monday a ‘new approach’ to resolving United Nations. concerns about its nuclear programme, as he began talks on easing a deadlock over an investigation into suspicions of illicit nuclear bomb research by Teheran.

Abbas Araqchi met UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano in Vienna, the first such high-level encounter since Iran’s election in June of a moderate president committed to improving its foreign relations after years of increasing confrontation.

‘It is very important for all of us that we can show concrete progress,’ Amano said, sitting across a table from Araqchi at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna.

‘We think this is the time to take a new approach to resolving (questions) between Iran and the IAEA and look to the future for further cooperation in order to ensure the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme,’ Araqchi said.

He gave no details, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2009 HRS, OCT 28, 2013
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