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FARS News AgencyNews number: 9107133533

18:14 | 2013-01-06

“Our stance on Iran’s nuclear case is fully clear as we are trying to persist in talks to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue,” Yang said in a meeting with the governor-general of Iran’s Northern province of Golestan in the provincial capital city of Gorgan on Sunday.

As regards the bilateral relations, Yang said that Iran and China share common grounds in political, economic and cultural fields as both are moving on similar path of development. 

His remarks came after Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying Beijing once more renewed its support for Tehran’s civilian nuclear program, and called for the resumption of talks between Iran and Group 5+1 (the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany).

Hua reiterated China’s call for the resumption of talks between Iran and the G5+1 about Tehran’s nuclear program and said, “We have always seen negotiations and cooperation as the best way to solve the Iranian nuclear issue.”

Hua’s statement came after Iran’s lead negotiator in talks with the world powers Saeed Jalili said Tehran and the G5+1 would resume talks later this month, although the place and date for the negotiations have not been finalized.

Saeed Jalili told reporters in New Delhi that Tehran has agreed to a new round of talks this month.

“We have accepted that these talks should be held in January … but till now the details have not been finalized,” he said.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the NPT entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment. 

Tehran has dismissed West’s demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path.

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA’s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.