The next meeting of the P5+1 and Iran will take place in Moscow

Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany(the P5+1) held negotiations on May 23-24 in Baghdad.

As Press TV reports the sides agreed to hold another round of talks in Moscow on June 18-19. 

Sources close to the Iranian delegation say Iran maintains that its demands, including the lifting of the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, must be met. 

The Iranian negotiating delegation was headed by Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili, and the delegations of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany were headed by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.  

On the first day of the negotiations,Iranoffered a comprehensive package to the P5+1, while a European Union spokesman, Michael Mann, told Press TV that the group’s representatives put forward a set of new proposals toTehran. 

The previous round of the talks betweenIranand the P5+1 was held in the Turkish city ofIstanbulon April 14. 

Iran and the P5+1 had previously held two rounds of talks, one in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2010, and another in Istanbul, Turkey, in January 2011. 

According to the same source British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced that  the P5+1 are ready to take concrete steps to build confidence.