Brussels, 28/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European External Action Service (EEAS) has announced that the political directors of the E3 (France, Germany and the United Kingdom) and their Iranian counterparts will meet in Istanbul on 29 January “for a one-day meeting as part of ongoing diplomatic efforts to find a negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue”.
The EU political director, Helga Schmid, has been invited to join the meeting. “The meeting underlines the commitment and importance that the E3, as well as the EU, attach to making progress as soon as possible towards a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue”, the EEAS states. A meeting bringing together the political directors of the E3+3 (Germany, France, United Kingdom and China, United States, Russia) and Iran will take place in February (see EUROPE 11233). (CG)