London, June 8, IRNA - Iran’s permanent representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Kazem Gharibabadi held talks with Secretary General of OPEC Mohammed Barkindo on Monday evening in Austria and discussed oil market and bilateral ties.

In his tweeter account, Gharibabadi wrote, "I had a fruitful consultations today with #OPEC SG #HEBarkindo. We reviewed the latest developments on international oil market and OPEC."

OPEC and its non-OPEC partners recently decided to gradually increase production. The group predicted in April that demand for oil will increase in the world; therefore, OPEC decided to increase production by 2.1 million barrels per day between May and July.

Senior diplomats have gathered together in Vienna to revive the deal from which the US withdrew in 2018.

The fifth round of the Joint Commission meetings of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was held in Vienna, Austria, where top diplomats of delegations decided to travel back to their capitals in order to hold consultations with their governments.

Top negotiators of signatories to the JCPOA, including the P4+1 group (the UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany) and Iran as well as the European Union, evaluated the latest round of talks, saying that all sides are determined to find ways to solve the remaining issues in the coming days.

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