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Nuclear Talks Between P5+1 And Iran Scheduled For April

IN THIS ISSUE: Talks with Iran in April, U.S. nukes face up to 10M cyber attacks daily, IAEA starts talks with N. Korea over visit, Germany unprepared for major nuclear disaster, scrapping U.K.'s Trident nuclear missiles 'would save £83.5B,' U.S. denies disclosing missile defense data to Russia.

Published on March 22, 2012
 

Nuclear Talks With Iran Scheduled for April

Global Security Newswire

Ashton and Jalili

The five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany are set on April 13 to join Iran for a new round of discussions on the Middle Eastern nation's atomic activities, U.S. and European Union personnel told Israel on Tuesday.

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton recently said the six negotiating powers -- China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- had decided to join new discussions with Iran over the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear program. Iranian officials most recently met with representatives from the nations on two separate occasions in December 2010 and January 2011, but neither gathering yielded clear progress toward resolving concerns about Iranian atomic operations.     Full Article

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