Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu expected nuclear talks between Iran and world powers to resume next April, offering that his country could host the discussions.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu expected nuclear talks between Iran and world powers to resume next April, offering that his country could host the discussions.

"I have the belief that the negotiations ... might take place in a month's time, in April at the latest," Davutoglu was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency, citing an interview with state-run TRT Haber late Tuesday.
"If they prefer Turkey, we always host them and do our best," he said.

Davutoglu noted that he would meet with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, next week.

The last round of talks between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group -- UN Security Council permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, plus Germany -- collapsed in Istanbul in January 2011.

The United Nations and the West have imposed a raft of sanctions on Iran in an unsuccessful effort to force it to halt its atomic activities.

Iran confirms its program is for peaceful ends only insisting that is its right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) while Israel, which is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East with more than 200 nuclear heads, is not a signatory for this treaty.