Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif will meet with delegates from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany later this week to discuss Iran's nuclear program, Reuters reported Sept. 23, citing comments from EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party is leading the German election with an estimate 42 percent of the vote, exit polls show, BBC and The Guardian reported Sept. 22.
U.S., Russian, British, French and Chinese officials will meet in New York on Sept. 17 to discuss a U.N. Security Council draft on Syria, Al Arabiya reported.
