TEHRAN (FNA)- Hossein Fereydoun, the younger brother of President Hassan Rouhani, is participating in the nuclear talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) to report the latest developments in the negotiations to the president, an advisor said."The presence of Hossein Fereydoun alongside the Iranian nuclear negotiating team in Vienna was demanded by Foreign Minister (Mohammad Javad Zarif)," President's Advisor for Media Affairs Mohammad Reza Sadeq told FNA on Monday.
"Hossein Fereydoun has traveled to Vienna in this round of the negotiations to prepare reports (on the status quo in the talks) for the president," Sadeq said.
Also, a member of Iran's negotiating team with the world powers said that since the Iranian delegation in Vienna, specially Foreign Minister Zarif, should hold different and intensive meetings with their counterparts in the G5+1 and they cannot travel to Tehran to report the conditions to the president, Fereydoun has traveled to Vienna to provide his brother with a detailed report on the developments in this round of the negotiations.
Earlier foreign media reports also said that sending Fereydoun as a special observer to the nuclear talks in Vienna for the first time indicates the importance of the final week of negotiations before a July 20 deadline.
The sixth round of talks between Tehran and the G5+1 headed by Zarif and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton officially started in Vienna on July 3 and is still continuing in the Austrian capital with both sides describing the negotiations as hard, but constructive and positive.The Iranian foreign minister on Sunday asked the six world powers not to lose the present opportunity for making the history by resolving the decade-long dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
"We're able to make the history by this time next Sunday (July 20, the deadline envisaged in the interim Geneva agreement inked by Iran and the six powers in November)," Zarif wrote on his twitter page in Vienna yesterday.
Yet, the Iranian foreign minister, who is also the country's lead negotiator in the talks with the G5+1, asked the sextet to move to build Iran's confidence. "Trust is a two-way street. Concerns of all sides must be addressed to reach a deal."
"I won't engage in the blame game. (It is) not my style. What I will engage in is a sincere effort to come to an agreement, and I expect the same (from the other side)," he added.
By Fars News Agency
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