Zarif and Kerry are set to hold the meeting on the sidelines of the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on Monday.
It will be the first meeting between the top Iranian and US diplomats since Iran and the P5+1 - the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany – reached a mutual understanding on the parameters of a comprehensive agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.
Iran and the P5+1 countries ended their latest round of talks at the deputy and expert levels in Vienna, Austria, on April 24. The three-day talks were held with the goal of drafting the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) based on the mutual understanding reached in Lausanne.
Zarif is also scheduled to hold separate meetings with EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, and some foreign ministers of the P5+1 group.
Iran`s foreign minister will be the first state party to the NPT to address its 190 signatories at the United Nations headquarters in New York on behalf of the 118 members of the Non-Aligned Movement that have signed the NPT as the world`s benchmark disarmament pact.
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