P5+1

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany told Iran to prepare a "serious response" by October 1 to demands that it halts its nuclear programme.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the P5+1) want Iran to scale down its nuclear activities.

The ministry said the nuclear negotiations process between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany has also provided opportunities for the removal of US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

He is also scheduled to hold a meeting with the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili two days before Jalili sits across the table with the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, the senior EU official heading the P5+1 group, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, in Baghdad.

Iran is determined to reach a comprehensive nuclear deal with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, Rouhani said, addressing the participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday.

He was referring to the talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany), due in Baghdad on May 23.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated at the United Nations in New York that Iran is ready to hold talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany to settle the dispute over its controversial programmes.

He criticized attacks on US President Barack Obama's administration for failing to conclude an agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany on Tehran's nuclear energy work.

And now a new round of talks between Iran and the IAEA is set for September 27, and a meeting with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the G5+1 or E3+3), the first since April, is also expected soon.

He pointed to the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the G5+1 - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -, and told the Sky News Arabia, "Those who say that this (the negotiation process) is a failure simply want to step up hysterical rhetoric.

The Iranian official noted that by imposing sanctions, the West showed that not only don't they follow a constructive approach to Iran's nuclear energy issue, but they also seek to create tensions at a time when the emphasis in the talks between Iran and the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) is on building mutual trust to reach an acceptable resolution.