France's Fabius to join Iran talks Saturday
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius plans to join nuclear talks between Iran and major powers in Switzerland Saturday, a French foreign ministry spokesman said, AFP reported.
Fabius, long fearful of a soft deal leaving Iran with the possibility to obtain nuclear weapons, will join U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Lausanne who were holding talks Thursday.
It was unclear whether the foreign ministers of the other powers involved in the marathon talks - Britain, China, Germany and Russia - might also join their respective negotiating teams already there.
The parties have set themselves a March 31 target to agree the outlines of an accord.
A final agreement is meant to be concluded by June 30.
Kerry is under severe pressure from the U.S. Congress to return from Lausanne with something concrete but it is unclear how detailed the framework accord will be, or even whether it will be a written document.