DHAKA: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is coordinating talks between six world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme, said she would visit Tehran in the coming weeks.

‘It is my intention to visit in the next weeks,’ Ashton told a news conference in Kuwait with Kuwaiti foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Hamad al-Sabah, in comments about the invitation extended to her to pay a visit to Iran.

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier invited Ashton to make a trip to Tehran, Tehran Times prints this report on Wednesday.

Iran and the EU announced on Sunday that a deal between Iran and the six powers, intended to pave the way for a solution to the long standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, would come into force on January 20.

BDST: 1855 HRS, JAN 15, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor