Turkey is expected to host the meeting between Iran and the so-called 5+1 countries (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) in Istanbul in early April, local newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported on its website Friday.

The target of the meeting should be for Iran to halt uranium enrichment, Anatolia quoted Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as saying in the report.

On his way back from Nakhchivan to Ankara, Davutoglu said that, in this context, the May 2010 Tehran Agreement between Turkey, Iran and Brazil, which was rejected by the West, was a huge "missed opportunity." The agreement, if accepted then, would have allowed the international community to take 1,800 kg of enriched uranium from Iran, out of a total of 3,000 kg, according to the report.

If that agreement was accepted, Iran would also have taken the uranium it needed from abroad, halting the process of enrichment, said Davutoglu.

Regarding Iran's oil exports, Davutoglu said Iran had to choose between "the gain and loss of sanctions and the gain and loss of nuclear power."

Commenting on Iran's position on Syria, Davutoglu said that "both Iran and Russia were expecting that Bashar al-Assad would take back control. They still favor reforms under Assad rule. But our trust has ended. We say that Assad should transfer his authorities."