U.S. expects fresh meeting over Iran issue

Source: Xinhua | 01-16-2008 08:24

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The United States is expecting a meeting on the Iran's nuclear program to be held soon and it has been working with other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany in this regard, the State Department said Tuesday.

"We have been working on a P5, plus 1 ministerial level meeting.I hope that we can have an announcement for you in a not too distant future on that," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.

"There's been a lot of discussion in the press about a possible meeting venue in Berlin. I'll let the host of such a potential meeting speak about it before I do," McCormack said.

The meeting will be held in Berlin, Germany, next week, according to the Financial Times Deutschland.

Tensions are growing between the United States and Iran over Washington's accusations that Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons and helping Shiite militias in Iraq that target U.S. troops. Iran denies the charges.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei