Russia expects Iran to resume talks with the group of six international mediators over its controversial nuclear program in mid-November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
"We have heard that Iranians are interested to return to these talks round about the middle of November," Lavrov told journalists after the Russia-ASEAN summit in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
It has been a year now since Iran agreed to return to the talks, he said.
"Better late than never," he added.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, said on Friday that Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, had agreed to resume the talks "in a place and on a date convenient to both sides." She added that the talks would take place after November 10.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in October Tehran was ready for a new round of talks but only on a number of conditions, including a comment by the Iran Six (the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany) on Israel's nuclear capability.
Talks between Tehran and the Iran Six came to a halt in 2009, after an IAEA resolution condemned the Islamic Republic over the construction of a second uranium enrichment facility.
The United Nations Security Council imposed a fourth set of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program in June.
HANOI, October 30 (RIA Novosti)
