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Talks on a draft resolution for a comprehensive deal on Iran's nuclear issue are continuing at all levels, but the progress has not been sufficient, Iran's senior negotiator Abbas Araqchi said on Monday.
The text of the resolution has complicated dimensions in terms of technical, legal and political issues, hence, it necessitates thorough considerations, Araqchi said before leaving Austria's Vienna to Luxembourg for a meeting with European Union deputy foreign policy chief Helga Schmid, who represents six world powers, according to semi-official ISNA news agency.
"The differences over an agreement has been narrowed down to some degrees, but the progress has not been as expected," he was quoted as saying.
The Iranian diplomat said that although the self-imposed deadline for a potential comprehensive deal looms, the talks will be extended for more days. "What is of importance for us is a proper and good deal in which all the (nuclear) rights of the Iranians are recognized and respected," he added.
Araqchi said that the Iranian Foreign Minister will also hold separate meetings with his German, British and French counterparts in Luxembourg to discuss the differences on key issues.
On Sunday, Iranian lawmakers approved a bill urging President Hassan Rouhani's administration to secure Iran's nuclear rights in a possible deal with world powers as the June deadline nears.
Any nuclear agreement should include the complete and immediate removal of all sanctions against the country "on the day Iran starts fulfilling its obligations," the bill was cited as reading by Press TV.
It also said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will have no access to Iran's "military, security and sensitive non-nuclear sites, documents and scientists" under the additional protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Any agreement with the P5+1 group countries, namely the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany, will be valid as long as these requirements are met in a potential nuclear deal, the bill stressed.
On Nov. 24, 2013, world powers and Iran reached an interim agreement on the latter's nuclear program, which demanded Iran suspend some sensitive nuclear activities in exchange for limited sanction relief to buy time for diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue.
Negotiators agreed on a framework of understanding in early April and set June 30 as a deadline for reaching a final deal, after missing two previous deadlines in June and November last year.
However, Iran's top officials said recently that the country is not bound by the self-imposed deadline in a run for a "good" comprehensive deal with the world powers on the country's nuclear program.
Iran's nuclear program has long been a subject of concern for Western powers, who suspect it to be geared towards developing nuclear weapons. Iran insists it has the right to develop civilian nuclear program. Enditem
