MOSCOW. Nov 22 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he is hoping the sextet (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) will meet with Iranian officials in early December.
"We have confirmed our hope [in the negotiations with the German foreign minister on Sunday] that a meeting on the resumption of talks with the Iranians, which is expected to be conducted by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, involving the political directors of the six countries, where a plan of actions for the negotiation round will be developed, will be held in December," Lavrov told Russian reporters.