GENEVA — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he planned to draft a framework with representatives of six world powers — the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany, or P5+1 — on Friday, while negotiations seemed to gather such pace that there was a talk that an agreement could even be signed on Friday or Saturday. US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Geneva Friday to join the talks, a US official confirmed to Al-Monitor late Thursday.
“Secretary Kerry will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday at the invitation of EU High Representative [Catherine] Ashton in an effort to help narrow differences in negotiations,” the senior State Department official said.
"We are talking about a framework agreement that includes three steps: objectives, end game, and a first step," Zarif told Al-Monitor in an interview Thursday, one of a series he gave in his Geneva hotel at the conclusion of the first day of a new round of nuclear talks that were stunning for their sense of new-found, high-speed momentum after years of no progress.
