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"The new Iranian administration did not come to Vienna with constructive proposals," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says at her briefing, after diplomats paused international talks aimed at the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in San Francisco next month for "constructive" talks, the White House says. "It's going to be in San Francisco, it is going to be a constructive meeting. The president is looking forward to it," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says of the long-awaited talks. SOUNDBITE
The White House says it remains committed to nuclear negotiations with Iran despite Tehran's "provocative" statement that it will ramp up uranium enrichment. "We are certainly concerned about these provocative announcements," President Joe Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The United States says that initial talks by its partners in Vienna on Iran were "constructive" as President Joe Biden looks for ways to rejoin a 2015 nuclear deal. "We do see this as a constructive and certainly welcome step," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the Joint Plan of Action, or JPOA, designed to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons does not include giving Iran access to the US financial system. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)