Iran formally agrees to resume N-talks: report

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TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday said it has formally agreed to resume talks on its controversial nuclear programme with six major powers which have been stalled since January.

Iran's official confirmation came in a letter delivered to the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton who spearheads the talks on behalf of the so-called P5+1 powers.

"We welcome your return to the negotiations based on cooperation on the common points," Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was quoted as saying in the letter, according to a report by Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam television.

It said the letter was handed over by Tehran's envoy to the EU.

"The developments in recent months have shown that Iran's proposal package three years ago was based on the correct understanding of the realities," Jalili said. (AFP)