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Iran's President Says More Nuclear Talks Possible

   VOA News  23 January 2011
   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (file)

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   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (file)

   Iranian  President  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he believes further talks
   with world powers regarding Tehran's nuclear program are possible.
   Mr.   Ahmadinejad's  comments  came  Sunday,  following  two  days  of
   negotiations in Turkey that ended without agreement.
   European  Union  foreign  policy  chief  Catherine Ashton said she was
   disappointed  with  the outcome of the talks between Iran and the five
   permanent  members  of  the U.N. Security Council and Germany, a group
   known as the P5+1.
   She  said  the  negotiations  in Turkey stalled over Iran's insistence
   that  the  United Nations lift its sanctions, a condition the P5+1 has
   rejected.
   Iranian  chief  nuclear  negotiator Saeed Jalili said Tehran maintains