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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet on Thursday in Spain in their latest bid to break the deadlock over the Iranian atomic standoff.

"Ali Larijani and Javier Solana will meet and talk on May 31 in Madrid," a source in Iran's supreme national security council told the state-run IRNA agency.

Solana had earlier confirmed at the eighth Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM) in Hamburg that he will hold talks on Thursday in the Spanish capital with Larijani, the head of Iran's national security council.

The meetings between Larijani and Solana are central to diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff, which has already seen Iran slapped with two sets of UN sanctions for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.