The Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday that Qatari and Pakistani mediators had concluded separate meetings with negotiators from the United States and Iran in Doha.
In a statement on X, it said that “positive progress” was made on issues related to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two sides, building on the talks held in Switzerland earlier this month.
“Parties have agreed to continue discussions over the coming period, with the next meeting to be set at the earliest possible time following the funeral processions of the former Iranian supreme leader,” it said.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated on the first day of the US-Israel war on Iran, is due to be buried on July 9,
A similar statement was also posted by Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson hours earlier.
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