High Representative and Vice President Federica Mogherini travels to Lausanne to join the ongoing talks on the Iranian nuclear issue

Reports of negotiations in Lausanne in late March 2015 on Iran's nuclear programme between foreign ministers from the so-called P5+1 - comprising the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was also present. The deadline for the negotiations had been fixed for 31 March 2015.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Europe stepping up its game on Iran http://www.europeansources.info/record/europe-stepping-up-its-game-on-iran/

EU: EEAS: Iran http://eeas.europa.eu/iran/index_en.htm

ESO: Background information: Negotiations with Iran: our best bet for future security http://www.europeansources.info/record/negotiations-with-iran-our-best-bet-for-future-security/

ESO: Background information: Meeting of the High Representative and Vice President Federica Mogherini, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Laurent Fabius, of Germany, Frank Walter Stenmeier, of Great Britain, Philip Hammond and of Iran, Javad Zarif, March 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-meeting-of-the-high-representative-and-vice-president-federica-mogherini-ministers-of-foreign-affairs-of-france-laurent-fabius-of-germany-frank-walter-stenmeier-of-great-britain-p/

ESO: Background information: Iran nuclear talks extension: Not ideal, but not defeat http://www.europeansources.info/record/iran-nuclear-talks-extension-not-ideal-but-not-defeat/

BBC News, 31.03.15: Iran nuclear talks enter final day http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32125862

Deutsche Welle, 31.03.15: Final day of Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne http://dw.de/p/1Ezpz

Deutsche Welle, 01.04.15: Iran nuclear talks run well into overtime http://dw.de/p/1F1aG

Tages-Anzeiger, 02.04.15: Nuclear deal with Iran virtually impossible (via Euro|Topics) http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/archiv/aehnliche/archiv_article/ARTICLE160991-Nuclear-deal-with-Iran-virtually-impossible

The Local.ch, 02.04.15: Iran nuclear talks carry on into the wee hours http://www.thelocal.ch/20150402/iran-nuclear-talks-carry-on-into-the-wee-hours

BBC News, 02.04.15: Iran nuclear deal: Complex details delay agreement http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32160926

---