Pakistan calls Iran and US to keep ceasefire after talks end without agreement
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar called on Iran and the United States to keep their commitment to maintain a ceasefire after both countries ended historic face-to-face talks without an agreement.
“It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,” Dar said.
He added that Pakistan will continue to play is mediating role and will try to keep facilitating the dialogue between Iran and the U.S. in coming days.
The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end their war despite lengthy talks that concluded on Sunday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, jeopardising a fragile ceasefire.
Each side blamed the other for the failure of the 21-hour-long negotiations to end fighting that has killed thousands and sent global oil prices soaring since it began over six weeks ago.
'The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America,' Vice President JD Vance, the head of the U.S. delegation, told reporters shortly before he left Islamabad.
'So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are.'
The U.S. delegation later left Pakistan, while the Iranians were to depart later on Sunday, two Pakistani sources told Reuters. Vance said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including not to build nuclear weapons.
'We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal of the president of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations.'
A spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry said the talks were conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust. 'It is natural that we shouldn't have expected to reach agreement in just one session,' the spokesperson was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
'It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,' Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said in a statement after the talks. The two sides agreed on Tuesday to a two-week ceasefire in an attempt to wind down a war that began on February 28 with air strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran.
Vance said he had spoken with President Donald Trump as many as a dozen times during the talks. But even as the negotiations continued, Trump said on Saturday that a deal was not entirely necessary.
'We're negotiating, whether we make a deal or not makes no difference to me, because we've won,' he told reporters.
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar called on Iran and the United States to keep their commitment to maintain a ceasefire after both countries ended historic face-to-face talks without an agreement.
“It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,” Dar said.
He added that Pakistan will continue to play is mediating role and will try to keep facilitating the dialogue between Iran and the U.S. in coming days.
The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end their war despite lengthy talks that concluded on Sunday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, jeopardising a fragile ceasefire.
Each side blamed the other for the failure of the 21-hour-long negotiations to end fighting that has killed thousands and sent global oil prices soaring since it began over six weeks ago.
'The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America,' Vice President JD Vance, the head of the U.S. delegation, told reporters shortly before he left Islamabad.
'So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are.'
The U.S. delegation later left Pakistan, while the Iranians were to depart later on Sunday, two Pakistani sources told Reuters. Vance said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including not to build nuclear weapons.
'We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal of the president of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations.'
A spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry said the talks were conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust. 'It is natural that we shouldn't have expected to reach agreement in just one session,' the spokesperson was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
'It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,' Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said in a statement after the talks. The two sides agreed on Tuesday to a two-week ceasefire in an attempt to wind down a war that began on February 28 with air strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran.
Vance said he had spoken with President Donald Trump as many as a dozen times during the talks. But even as the negotiations continued, Trump said on Saturday that a deal was not entirely necessary.
'We're negotiating, whether we make a deal or not makes no difference to me, because we've won,' he told reporters.
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar called on Iran and the United States to keep their commitment to maintain a ceasefire after both countries ended historic face-to-face talks without an agreement.
“It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,” Dar said.
He added that Pakistan will continue to play is mediating role and will try to keep facilitating the dialogue between Iran and the U.S. in coming days.
The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end their war despite lengthy talks that concluded on Sunday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, jeopardising a fragile ceasefire.
Each side blamed the other for the failure of the 21-hour-long negotiations to end fighting that has killed thousands and sent global oil prices soaring since it began over six weeks ago.
'The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America,' Vice President JD Vance, the head of the U.S. delegation, told reporters shortly before he left Islamabad.
'So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are.'
The U.S. delegation later left Pakistan, while the Iranians were to depart later on Sunday, two Pakistani sources told Reuters. Vance said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including not to build nuclear weapons.
'We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal of the president of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations.'
A spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry said the talks were conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust. 'It is natural that we shouldn't have expected to reach agreement in just one session,' the spokesperson was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
'It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,' Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said in a statement after the talks. The two sides agreed on Tuesday to a two-week ceasefire in an attempt to wind down a war that began on February 28 with air strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran.
Vance said he had spoken with President Donald Trump as many as a dozen times during the talks. But even as the negotiations continued, Trump said on Saturday that a deal was not entirely necessary.
'We're negotiating, whether we make a deal or not makes no difference to me, because we've won,' he told reporters.
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Pakistan calls Iran and US to keep ceasefire after talks end without agreement
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