Major powers mull meeting over Iran

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Major powers are considering a joint meeting with Iran next week that excludes the United States as a way of bridging a divide over its nuclear programme, U.S. and European diplomats said on Saturday.

They described the planning as extremely fluid and unlikely to result in any firm decisions until key officials confer in New York Sunday and Monday on the fringes of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

Concerns about Iran's nuclear programme are expected to be a major focus of this year's General Assembly and multiple meetings and speeches on the subject are likely.

The question is "whether there could be a meeting -- not necessarily with the United States -- that would allow the Iranians to say there was a process of negotiations that had started and as result of this, they decided to resume the suspension of uranium enrichment," one diplomat said.

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