Following a first round of talks in Switzerland between Tehran and Washington towards ending the Middle East war, Bern said Monday that conditions were set for technical discussions to follow immediately.<\/p>\n
Teams led by US Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf opened talks at the Swiss resort of Burgenstock on Sunday, as part of a two-month negotiating period set out under a preliminary deal agreed last week.<\/p>\n
Mediators Pakistan and Qatar said the negotiators reached agreement early Monday on a “roadmap towards reaching a final deal within 60 days”, and announced that a contact channel had been set up to keep the vital Strait of Hormuz open and end fighting in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
“The Swiss facilitator welcomes the constructive progress made during the intensive diplomatic talks that continued throughout the night of 21-22 June at the Burgenstock between the mediators, Iran and the United States,” the Swiss foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Technical talks have been scheduled to continue for the rest of the week at the resort.<\/p>\n
The Swiss ministry said that the roadmap agreed during the first round of talks “creates the conditions for the immediate resumption of new technical discussions”.<\/p>\n
“Switzerland remains ready to support this process, in line with its tradition of good offices,” it said, stressing that “our aim is that our diplomacy contributes to de-escalation, stability and peace”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a first round of talks in Switzerland between Tehran and Washington towards ending the Middle East war,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[5649,41,17,45306,4871],"class_list":["post-89586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-iran-war","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-technical-discussion","tag-us-iran-talks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116793075522717396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}