jeudi 2 avril 2015

Officials: Agreement on Nuke Deal but Not on Disclosure

Iran and and six world powers have agreed on the outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase of nuclear negotiations but are in a dispute over how much to make public, officials told The Associated Press Thursday.



The officials spoke outside week-long talks that have busted through a March 31 deadline in an effort to formulate a general statement of what has been accomplished and documents setting down what the sides need to do by the end of June deadline for a deal.



Swiss officials facilitating the negotiations set a news conference for later in the day that was expected to announce the results of the talks



In the search for a comprehensive deal, the U.S. and five other countries hope to curb Iran's nuclear technologies that it could use to make weapons. Tehran denies such ambitions but is negotiating because it wants a lifting of sanctions imposed over its nuclear program.



Pressured by congressional critics in the U.S. who threaten to impose new sanctions on Iran over what they say is a bad emerging deal, the Obama administration is demanding significant public disclosure of agreements and understandings reached at the current round. But the officials say Iran wants a minimum made public.



Iranian leaders are opposed to two agreements, saying previous two-stage negotiations were detrimental to

Officials: Agreement on Nuke Deal but Not on Disclosure

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