(VOVworld) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said that Iran will resume negotiations with world powers in Geneva next week to search for a final deal on Tehran’s contention’s nuclear program.

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi announces that talks will begin on Wednesday [EPA]

Abbas Arqchi, who is also part of Iran’s negotiating team, said on Thursday that the talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany will begin on Wednesday, December 17^th, two days earlier than scheduled.

At the most recent negotiating session, despite progress, the two sides failed to clinch a definitive deal by the November 24^th deadline and agree to extend the talks until July 1^st.

Iran and the P5+1 group will seek to strike an outline deal by March and nail down a full technical accord by July.