US recognizes Iran’s nuclear rights

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin made the announcement in a joint statement issued after a meeting on Monday in Los Cabos, Mexico.

“Our common goal is an all-embracing negotiated settlement based on the principles of a phased approach and reciprocity, and expect constructive negotiations with Iran via the six power talks, including the negotiating rounds in Moscow on June 18-19,” the statement added.

Obama and Putin also said they “look forward to constructive engagement with Iran through the P5+1 process,” noting that their common goal is to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue based on the principles of a step-by-step approach and reciprocity.

Obama insisted that there was still “time and space” for a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.

The comments came hours after the first day of negotiations in Moscow between Iran and the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany).

The two-day Moscow negotiations are a follow-up to the previous talks held in Iraq and Turkey.

Iran and the P5+1 group held three sessions of plenary talks in Baghdad in May after an earlier round of negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul in mid-April.

They had previously held two rounds of talks, one in Geneva in December 2010 and another in Istanbul in January 2011.

The Iranian delegation is led by the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, and the P5+1 group’s delegation is headed by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

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