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Pakistan announced Saturday that technical-level talks between United States and Iranian representatives will take place Sunday in the Swiss town of Burgenstock, marking the next step in implementing a ceasefire and negotiation framework signed earlier this week by the leaders of both countries.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the meeting follows the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, with talks scheduled for June 21 in Burgenstock.
Officials from Pakistan and Qatar will attend in their capacity as mediators, alongside delegations from Washington and Tehran, the ministry said.
Iran had separately indicated that a delegation would travel to Switzerland on Saturday evening to discuss implementation of the memorandum and to press for an end to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif will personally represent Pakistan at the talks, an official from the Prime Minister's Office told Anadolu Agency.
Pakistani officials also said that Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, who had been holding official meetings in Tehran as part of the Iran-US negotiation process, was departing for Switzerland to join the talks.
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Iran and the United States announced on June 14 that they had reached a 14-point agreement, brokered through Pakistani mediation, to halt the war and resolve outstanding disputes between the two sides through negotiation.
The agreement, known as the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, was signed digitally on June 18 by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and U.S. President Donald Trump, bringing it into force.
The memorandum includes provisions to end the conflict, including hostilities involving Lebanon, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and lift the U.S. naval blockade imposed on Iran, according to the Pakistani announcement.
Following the signing of the memorandum, the two sides are expected to soon begin a 60-day negotiation process aimed at reaching a final agreement, with talks set to address Iran's nuclear program and the lifting of sanctions, among other issues.
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