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New UN human rights chief Volker Turk reveals he offered to visit Iran since taking up office last month but has so far not received any reply. SOUNDBITE
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is welcomed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara for twice-delayed talks aimed at ironing out past differences between the two neighbours and trying to halt the spread of the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES
Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's envoy at the Iran nuclear deal talks, arrives at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, where the IAEA-brokered talks are set to resume in hopes of finding a way to save the historic accord brokered in 2015. This is the first time since March that all the parties (Iran, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany) are meeting, with the participation of the United States, in order to save the agreement, which was supposed to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring atomic weapons. IMAGES
The quarterly IAEA Board of Governors meeting opens in Vienna amid stalled talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, as major European countries and the United States are expected to seek to censure Iran. If the resolution urging Iran to "cooperate fully" with the IAEA is adopted, it will be the first motion censuring Iran since June 2020. IMAGES of the plenary room
Russian ambassador Mikhail Ulaynov says the conclusion of the Iran nuclear talks "does not depend on Russia only," reacting to a call by the EU to pause the process, days after fresh demands from Moscow reagrding Western sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine complicated negotiations. SOUNDBITE