Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has said that Iran and the European Union have agreed to hold a new round of nuclear talks in the near future. Jalili made the statement at a press conference in Istanbul yesterday that after he had talks with EU foreign affairs representative Catherine Ashton in Istanbul the previous day. The Iranian official said the time for the upcoming nuclear talks will be decided when Ashton returns and submits a report to the P5+1 -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. On Tuesday, Ashton met with Iranian officials in Istanbul in a bid to end the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program.