Nuclear talks negotiators meet again as Iran hints at flexibility over sanctions
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Source: The Guardian - Thursday 2 April 2015 07.32 BST
Foreign ministers are due to reconvene in Lausanne on Thursday morning to consider fresh Iranian proposals aimed at bringing an end to the impasse that has mired negotiations over the the country’s nuclear programme.
No details were released about the proposals but an Iranian official had publicly hinted at new flexibility over one of the most intractable issues, the lifting of UN sanctions.
As the talks continued until dawn on Thursday, the US state department announced that the secretary of state, John Kerry, was postponing his departure and would remain until at least Thursday morning.
At about 6am local time, department spokeswoman Marie Harf tweeted that the talks had broken after an all-night session but would resume in a few hours.
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Iranian foreign minister Mohamad Javad Zarif said: ‘Coordination between these countries is very difficult but they should know that our people will not accept pressure’. Photograph: Pool/Reuters