国际英语新闻：Iran nuclear talks end first day in low profile

GENEVA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian nuclear talks at Geneva finished its first day session Monday evening. Although no formal remarks were made, the fact that all the 7 parties are ready to enter into the second day of talks is a positive sign, observers said.

"The fear was that the talks would break down very quickly, but the fact that we've come to the end of the day and the talks hasn' t broke down is a good sign," a British expert on Iranian nuclear issue told Xinhua after the first day session.

All parties to the talks were keeping low profiles through out the first day and acted extremely cautious publicly, but it is believed that small scale sideline bilateral and multilateral contacts among some of the key players also took place during the talks.

Analysts believe it is not very practical to anticipate great victory at the end the talks, but a small diplomatic progress might be achieved.

The meeting is expected to reopen on Tuesday at 0800 GMT.

Talks on the Iranian nuclear issue resumed here on Monday morning. The two-day closed-door meeting is being attended by Iran 's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, and European Union (EU) foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on behalf of the five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany (G5+1).

Tensions were high when Ali-Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's atomic energy authority, declare on Sunday, just one day before the resume of Geneva talks, the first Iranian-made uranium yellowcake, using domestically mined uranium ore, was shipped to the central city of Isfahan for processing, a process that could assure Iran's independent nuclear fuel supply.

Iranian officials have also accused the West and Israel of plotting two separate assassination attempts last week, which killed one nuclear scientist and injured another.

Iran said it would raise the issue during the Geneva talks.