European Union (EU) foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana said Sunday that the West hopes to restart talks with Iran on its nuclear program soon.

"We would like very much that soon we would have the possibility to restart the multilateral talks with Iran on the important issue," Solana told reporters at an informal meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

(Xinhua News Agency June 28, 2009)