Salehi made the remarks after addressing the UN Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, in which he called for global nuclear disarmament.
Iran and the P5+1 group — Russia, China, France, Britain, the US, and Germany — held two rounds of multifaceted talks, one in Geneva in December 2010 and another in Istanbul, Turkey in January 2011.
While Tehran says it is ready to continue the talks based on common grounds, it has emphasized that it will not give up any of its rights.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and are using the charge as a pretext to push for the imposition of new sanctions on the country and to beat the drums of war for an attack on the Islamic Republic.
Iran argues that, as a signatory to the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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