Sanctions must be lifted for successful talks, says Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says sanctions against his country must be lifted if nuclear talks in January are to succeed. Following two days of meetings in Geneva, discussions in late January will focus on “cooperation and find common points” according to a member of Iran’s delegation.

Reuters

“If you come to the negotiations by cancelling all the nasty things and wrong decisions that you have adopted lift resolutions, sanctions and some restrictions that you have created then the talks will definitely be fruitful,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast on state television, according to the AFP news agency.

“The negotiations will resume in end January in Istanbul to discuss cooperation and find commons points,” an Iranian member of the delegation told the AFP news agency.

The discussions in Geneva brought together the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Saeed Jalili, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, as well as representatives from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.