The United States is drafting a new sanctions resolution against Tehran, the State Department said Tuesday, just days before a meeting of major powers regarding Iran’s controversial atomic aims, reported French news agency AFP on Sep. 18.

“What we’re doing is working on the elements of a resolution … We put down on paper some of those ideas, what it might — what a resolution might look like,” spokesman Sean McCormack said.

“And we’re having ongoing discussions on that with” the five permanent members of the Security Council (United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) as well as Germany.

The meeting is to take place Friday in Washington, hosted by the State Department’s third top ranking diplomat Nicholas Burns, and the countries will be represented by their foreign ministries’ political directors.