Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said here Sunday that talks with US on detained Iranian diplomats in Iraq is not currently on agenda. Hosseini made the remark at his weekly press conference in response to a question whether Iran had conditioned continuation of talks on release of its five diplomats arrested in Iraqi city of Erbil in January.
In response to a question whether Iraqi officials have once again invited Iran and the US to hold their second round of talks, he said, "The Iraqi statesmen have expressed their readiness to hold the next round of talks." He stressed, "We intend to sum up and evaluate the first round of talks."
Hosseini stressed Iran has made other efforts to free the diplomats, adding it recently sent the second note to the United Nations and the UN Security Council in protest at their discriminatory attitude. |