BERLIN - Senior officials from six world powers will meet in Berlin on Wednesday to discuss the showdown with Iran over its nuclear programme, a diplomat said.
"It will take place in Berlin and is part of the regular meetings of the political directors on Iran," the diplomat told Reuters.
The meeting comes as Russia is voicing greater public scepticism over a third round of sanctions against Iran, which says its nuclear work is aimed at generating electricity and not building a bomb. China is also reluctant to impose new sanctions.
U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington on Wednesday that the meeting of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany would discuss the language of a new U.N. sanctions resolution.
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