Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili heads the Islamic Republic's negotiating delegation. The G5+1's representatives are led by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
The first round of talks between Iran and the G5+1 was held in Almaty's Rixos Hotel yesterday and lasted for almost three hours.
Yesterday, Spokesman of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton who leads the delegations of the world powers in talks with Iran, confirmed that representatives of Tehran and the Group 5+1 of powers will continue their current talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.
Also, prior to his departure to Almaty, Jalili called on the Group 5+1 not to repeat previous mistakes in the next round of talks with Iran, and start negotiations based on a new strategy.
"If the group has returned to the talks, they should enter this round of negotiations with a new strategy free from previous mistakes," Jalili said at the annual conference of the managers of Iran's nuclear industry here in Tehran on Saturday.
Iran's deputy chief negotiator Ali Baqeri and EU foreign policy deputy chief Helga Schmitt in a phone talk on February 5 agreed that the next round of talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1 be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on February 26.
Iran and the G5+1 have already held three rounds of talks in Geneva, two rounds in Istanbul, one round in Baghdad and one round in Moscow. The last round of talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 was held in Moscow in June.
