Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that excessive demands by the P5+1 group would hinder talks over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that excessive demands by the P5+1 group would hinder talks over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran does not need anything beyond its rights and is ready to allay the concerns of the international community, but we believe that imposition is no way to hold talks,” Zarif said as he arrived in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Wednesday for the nuclear talks.

Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – Russia, China, France, Britain and the US – plus Germany will resume the sixth round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear energy program in Vienna on Wednesday.

Zarif said Iran has never yielded to coercion and will not do so in this round of talks, either.

“In this round of talks, the negotiating sides must enter into drafting [the final agreement] by July 20,” Zarif, who is heading the Iranian negotiating team, added.

He stressed the importance of a political will to reach a final nuclear agreement and expressed Iran’s full readiness to reach and implement a final deal by July 20. He was referring to the nuclear deal clinched between Iran and the P5+1 group last November that will expire on 20 July.

The top diplomat noted that he would sit down with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton later on Wednesday.