DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif have met for two hours in Geneva in another round of nuclear talks.

They sit to try narrow gaps as they pressed against a March 31 deadline to reach a political agreement, reports the Aljazeera.

The meeting included for the first time US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi, who spent most of the day separately negotiating technical details of curbing Iran’s nuclear program.

The talks are set to resume on Monday before Kerry returns to Washington in time to testify before the Senate foreign relations committee on Tuesday on the State Department’s 2016 budget request.

Zarif told Iranian state media that mid-level bilateral talks had produced “good discussions but no agreements”, and some differences remained.

The talks took place behind closed doors with no customary photo opportunity for journalists covering the meetings.

BDST: 1054 HRS, FEB 23, 2015