The EU's high representative Javier Solana will speak to the ministers from the world's six major countries over Iran's nuclear standoff, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday.

"At the ministerial level there will be a conversation exactly about what Mr. Solana heard and how that met or did not meet the understandings arrived at all along the way," McCormack said at a briefing.

"They will talk about what it is that Mr. Larijani said and what the next steps will be," McCormack said.

However, McCormack did not specify the location or the timing for such a meeting.

In addition to Solana, foreign ministers from the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany are expected to attend the meeting.

Solana met Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Berlin this week and media reports have said that Iran still refuses to suspend its uranium enrichment program, a key demand by the United States.

The United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of civilian nuclear programs and has sought to impose sanctions on Iran through the UN Security Council. However, Iran has said that its nuclear programs are for peaceful purposes only.

Source: Xinhua